Mun·chau·sen syndrome (mnchouzən, 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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munchausen syndrome
[After MünchhausenBaron, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von(because the fabricated diseases recalled his fictionalized accounts of his life).]

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