Of Questionable Terminology

Below you will find any words I have run across that I thought might be unfamiliar to some. Any hints, clues, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated.

• Alytos: Greek term meaning "undissolved", describing the remarkable physical preservation of a vampire or revnant.

• Anemia: A medical condition involving the reduction of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying pigment, hemoglobin.

• Bhandara: Small shrines found in parts of India for the worship of a number of vampire species. They are places where the vampire can dwell and where sacrifices or oblations can be made to keep them placated. While varying in shape, they are designed so that the creature may rest without touching the ground, because they are forbidden to touch the sacred earth.

• Hematomania: A psychological fixation on blood from which an individual derives satisfaction of a kind of erotic bloodlust. Such forms of gratification, called also hematodipsia, are generally rare but constitute a condition for which there are numerous historical and modern examples.

• Inovercy: A Russian word meaning a follower of a different faith or creed, specifically someone who does not adhere to the teachings of the Russian Orthodox church and is thus doomed to come back as a vampire after death.

• Manducation: A technical term meaning "eating", referring to a corpse actually eating or chewing food or its own shroud, held by experts of the 17th and 18th centuries as proof concerning the existence and the unwholesome activities of the undead.

• Necrophagism: Also necrophagy, a phychological term used to describe the consumption of peices of the corpse of someone who has been terribly mutilated. Done often while in a stste of frenzy, this deviant act can be differentiated from cannibalism in that it is most often directed to a secific organ or body part of a dead person, the victim normally having been murdered only moments before.

• Necrophilia: A severe mental disorder and sexual deviation involving the uncontrollable desire to engage in assorted sexual activities with a cadaver, normally preformed by a male with an obsessive attitude about young women, toward whom he has a severe inferiority complex. The necrophiliac very closely monitors the obituaries and then digs up reciently deceased women or breaks into their tombs. The deviance has been noted throughout history, the earliest evidence dates back to the 5th century BCE.

• Porphyria: The name given to several diseases that are caused by a metabolic disorder from a deficiency in the enzyme needed for synthesis of heme (proteins function as oxygen carriers during respiration). It is very rare, manifesting itself in one of a number of disorders. Victims also suffer from severe photosensitivity, lack of pigmentation, chemical imbalances, and other potentially severe conditions. The term is derived from the Greek for 'purple', as purple urine is one of the characteristics. The liquid turns dark red after standing in the light, and under ultraviolet light becomes florescent.
  
  (AIP) acute intermittent porphyria
  (CEP) congenital erythropoietic porphyria
  (EPP) erythropoietic protoporphyria
  (PCT) porphyria cutania tardata
  (VP) variegate porphyria

• Sanguisuga: A Latin term meaning "bloodsucking" that was used in the Vulgate to explain a passage in the book of Proverbs (30:15) making reference to a bloodsucking demon, the aluga.