When to Seek Medical Care. If you have the signs and symptoms of a coccyx injury or unexplained discomfort in the tailbone area, contact your doctor. It may be necessary for the doctor to decide if the injury is traumatic or if the pain is caused by other, more serious, problems.
Etymology: Gk, nekros + philein, to love. 1 a morbid liking for being with dead bodies. 2 a morbid desire to have sexual contact with a dead body, usually of men to perform a sexual act with a dead woman. necrophile, necrophiliac, n. Sexuoeroticism that hinges on fantasies about or actual sexual interactions with a corpse; the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviours cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Necrotizing Fasciitis. Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a relatively uncommon but potentially fatal infection involving the subcutaneous tissue and fascia, a sheet of fibrous or tendinous tissue that lies deep to the skin or covers muscles and various body organs.ausative Agents. Necrotizing fasciitis has been subdivided into type I, or polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis, and type II, or invasive group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. Over the past decade the incidence of the disease due to group A streptococci has increased.