Relating to the study or characteristics of a being with part human and partly animal appearance, which may be its normal condition or, as in the case of theriomorphism, voluntarily or involuntarily become between one or the other. These entities are mentioned in myths and religions, or in psychiatry when someone believes themselves to be an animal, but in reality they could only be created with genetic engineering. It is a voice of Greek components : 952; 951; 961; 953; 959; 957; (therion "beast, wild animal") related to 964; 949; 961; 945; 962; ( teras "monster" ) , 945; 957; 952; 961; 969; 960; 959; 962; ( anthropos "man, human" ) , and the suffix - 953; 945; ( -ía "action, quality" ) . See cryptozoology.
