Munchausen syndrome
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A psychological disorder characterized by the repeated fabrication or causation of disease symptoms or trauma for the purpose of gaining medical attention or treatment.

[After Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen (because the fabricated diseases recalled his fictionalized accounts of his life).]

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Noun

Munchausen syndrome - syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found

Munchausen's syndrome

syndrome - a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

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Munchausen syndrome (redirected from Fake Illness)

Munchausen syndrome
(redirected from Fake Illness)