Munchausen's syndrome
Munchausen's syndrome
| Noun | 1. | Munchausen's syndrome - syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found |
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| 释义 | Munchausen's syndromeMunchausen's syndrome
Munchausen's syndromeMunchausen's syndromeThe systematic practice of deliberate and calculated simulation of disease so as to obtain attention, status and free accommodation and board. People engaging in this activity study medical textbooks and report a plausible list of symptoms of a usually serious condition so as to elicit medical interest and admission to hospital. They have a preference for surgical conditions and often display an unusual number of operation scars—a circumstance that may give the game away. Detection is inevitable and is followed by the disappearance of the ‘patient’. Baron Munchausen was the hero of the outrageously implausible pseudo-autobiographical tales of the novelist and criminal psychopath Rudolf Eric Raspe. The syndrome was so named, and first described, by Richard Asher in his book Talking Sense , published in 1972.Munchausen's syndrome
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