- Look up
factitious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
factitious disorder is a
mental disorder in
which a person,
without a
malingering motive, acts...
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Factitious disorder imposed on self, also
known as
Munchausen syndrome, is a
factitious disorder in
which those affected feign or
induce disease, illness...
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Factitious disorder imposed on
another (FDIA), also
known as
fabricated or
induced illness by
carers (FII) and
first named as
Munchausen syndrome by proxy...
- In philosophy,
facticity (French: facticité, German: Faktizität) has
multiple meanings — from "factuality" and "contingency" to the
intractable conditions...
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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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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 diarrhea is a
condition in
which a
person deliberately produces diarrhea, most
commonly by
surreptitious laxative abuse (laxative
abuse syndrome)...
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Dermatitis artefacta, also
known as
Factitious dermatitis, is a form of
factitious disorder in
which patients will
intentionally feign symptoms and produce...
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oxide or
dinitrogen monoxide),
commonly known as
laughing gas, nitrous,
factitious air,
among others, is a
chemical compound, an
oxide of
nitrogen with the...
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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...
