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Factitious disorder imposed on self (FDIS),
sometimes referred to as
Munchausen syndrome, is a
complex mental disorder where individuals play the role...
- In philosophy,
facticity (French: facticité, German: Faktizität) has
multiple meanings — from "factuality" and "contingency" to the
intractable conditions...
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Factitious disorder imposed on
another (FDIA), also
known as
fabricated or
induced illness by
carers (FII),
medical child abuse and
originally named Munchausen...
- Look up
factitious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
factitious disorder is a
mental disorder in
which a person,
without a
malingering motive, acts...
- term "
factitious airs".
Factitious means "artificial, not natural". Later,
English chemist and
physicist Henry Cavendish used the term "
factitious air"...
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suppliers of
addictive substances,
hypochondriacs or
patients of
factitious disorder and
factitious disorder imposed on another. A
doctor who, for a price, will...
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Factitious airs was a term used for
synthetic gases which emerged around 1670 when
Robert Boyle coined the term upon
isolating what is now
understood to...
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Artificiality (the
state of
being artificial, anthropogenic, or man-made) is the
state of
being the
product of
intentional human manufacture,
rather than...
- use or
factitious hypoglycemia. Some
people may use
insulin to
induce weight loss,
whereas for
others this may be due to
malingering or
factitious disorder...
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Dermatographic urticaria is a skin
disorder and one of the most
common types of urticaria,
affecting 2–5% of the po****tion. The
condition manifests as...
