Munchausen syndrome

Mun·chau·sen syndrome  (mnchouzn, mnchhou-)

n.

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

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

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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