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autonecrophilia

n. sexual pleasure derived from the fantasy that one is dead and that another person is having sexual relations with one’s dead body.

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May 9th 2024

Hering–Breuer reflex

Hering–Breuer reflex

a nervous mechanism involved in normal breathing, with stimuli from sensory endings in lung tissue limiting inspiration and expiration. [Ewald Hering; Josef Breuer]