Login Preferences
About News Publications Statistics Downloads API Guide License How to use Preferences
bn:03851013n
Noun Concept
Categories: Factitious disorders, Articles with short description
EN
factitious disorder  Facticious disorder  factitious disorders  Fictitious disorder  Munchausen syndrome
EN
A factitious disorder is a mental disorder in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms, purely to attain a patient's role. Wikipedia
Definitions
Relations
Sources
EN
A factitious disorder is a mental disorder in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms, purely to attain a patient's role. Wikipedia
Disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness Wikidata
IS A
mental disorder
HAS KIND
malingering
Munchausen's syndrome
wannarexia
Munchausen syndrome by proxy
factitious hypoglycemia
+3 relations
DIFFERENT FROM
conversion disorder
malingering
HEALTH SPECIALTY
psychiatry
psychology
Wikipedia
EN
factitious disorder
Wikidata
EN
factitious disorder
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Facticious disorder, Factitious Disorder, factitious disorders, Fictitious disorder
Wikidata Alias
EN
Munchausen syndrome

Please note that, in order to improve your browsing experience on this website, BabelNet® uses various types of cookies, including: browsing functionality, performance and statistical cookies.

By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. OK

License