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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Mun′chausen syn′drome, [Psychiatry.]- Psychiatrya factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
- named after Baron von Münchhausen, whose fictionalized accounts of his own experiences suggest symptoms of the disorder 1950–55
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