A delusional mental condition where a person believes they are a cow or ox, related to other animal-form delusions like lycanthropy.
From Greek 'bous' (cow, ox) plus 'anthropos' (human), modeled after 'lycanthropy.' A psychological term created in modern medical literature by analogy with existing animal-transformation delusions.
Boanthropy is a supremely rare delusion in psychiatric literature—it's so uncommon that most psychiatrists only know it exists because it's mentioned in historical texts and medical lexicons as the cow-equivalent of the more famous werewolf delusion!
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