LC control no. | sh 93000061 |
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Topical heading | Munchausen syndrome |
Variant(s) | Hospital-addiction syndrome Munchausen's syndrome Munchhausen syndrome |
See also | Factitious disorders Syndromes |
Found in | MESH (Munchausen syndrome x Hospital-addiction syndrome) Dorland's med. dict. (Syndrome: Munchausen's s.: A condition characterized by habitual presentation for hospital treatment of an apparent acute illness, the patient giving a plausible and dramatic history, all of which is false) Intl. dict. med. biol. (Syndrome: Munchausen syndrome: Although the term is more correctly spelled Munchhausen, almost all current writers use Munchausen) Random House (Munchausen syndrome) |