GC: n
S: PMC – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4261219/ (last access: 4 December 2024); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/munchausen-syndrome/overview/ (last access: 4 December 2024).
N: 1. – Munchausen (pn): Baron K. F. H. von Münchhausen †1797 German soldier and proverbial teller of exaggerated tales. The first known use of Munchausen syndrome was in 1951.
– syndrome (n): “a number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome “concurrence of symptoms, concourse of people,” from syndromos “place where several roads meet,” literally “a running together,” from syn- “with” (see syn-) + dromos “a running, course” (see dromedary). Psychological sense is from 1955.
2. A psychological disorder characterized by the intentional feigning, exaggeration, or induction of the symptoms of a disease or injury in order to undergo diagnostic tests, hospitalization, or medical or surgical treatment : factitious disorder imposed on self.
3. Psychoses; Clinical Psychology; Symptoms (Medicine): factitious disorder imposed on self, Munchausen syndrome.
- [The] falsification of physical or psychological symptoms without an obvious external incentive; the motivation for this behavior is to assume the sick role.
4. Not to be confused with factitious disorder imposed on another or Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
– Psychoses; Clinical Psychology; Symptoms (Medicine): factitious disorder imposed on another, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, MSBP, MSP, Munchausen by proxy, MBP, factitious disorder by proxy (former designation).
- A disorder in which someone induces physiological or psychological signs of a disease in another person who is in his or her care to indirectly play the sick role.
5. Cultural Interrelation: The 18th-Century Baron Who Lent His Name to Munchausen Syndrome. The medical condition is named after a fictional storyteller who in turn was based on a real-life German nobleman known for telling tall tales. Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of His Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, a 1785 novel by German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794).
S: 1. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Munchausen%20syndrome (last access: 4 December 2024); Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=syndrome (last access: 4 December 2024). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Munchausen%20syndrome (last access: 4 December 2024). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=Munchausen+syndrome&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=MUNCHAUSEN+SYNDROME+PROXY&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 4 December 2024). 5. Smithsonian – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-18th-century-baron-who-lent-his-name-to-munchausen-syndrome-180984133/ (last access: 4 December 2024).
OV: 1. Munchausen’s syndrome. 2. Munchhausen syndrome, Münchhausen syndrome, Munchhausen’s syndrome, Münchhausen’s syndrome.
S: 1. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Munchausen%20syndrome (last access: 4 December 2024). 2. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8395141/syndrome-de-munchhausen (last access: 4 December 2024).
SYN: factitious disorder imposed on self
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=Munchausen+syndrome&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 4 December 2024)
CR: syndrome
