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1. (n.) Munchausen syndrome
a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive medical treatment.
Etymology: (1950–55; named after Baron von Münchhausen, whose fictionalized accounts of his own experiences suggest symptoms of the disorder)
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1. (noun) Munchausen's syndrome, Munchausen syndrome
syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found
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1. munchausen syndrome
A factitious disorder characterized by habitual presentation for hospital treatment of an apparent acute illness, the patient giving a plausible and dramatic history, all of which is false.
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