Mun·chau·sen syndrome 
(mŭnchou′zən, mŭnchhou′-)
(mŭnchou′zən, mŭnchhou′-)n.
A psychiatric disorder characterized by the repeated fabrication of disease signs and symptoms for the purpose of gaining medical attention.
[After Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen (because the fabricated diseases recalled his fictionalized accounts of his life).]