| Researchers also note the need to examine the patient's psychological status when hysteria, malingering, or factitious illness may be a factor. |
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| The ear, freed from a factitious counting, takes joy in discerning, on its own, all the possible combinations of twelve tones. |
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| For decades, physicians have known about so-called factitious disorder, better known in its severe form as Munchausen syndrome. |
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| She was said to be suffering from factitious illness by proxy, a disorder previously referred to as Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. |
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| Occasionally, epilepsy can be mistaken for narcolepsy, and factitious simulation of narcolepsy has been described. |
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| People with factitious disorder feign or actually induce illness in themselves, typically to garner the nurturance of others. |
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| Most patients with factitious disorders are women with stable social networks, and more than half of these work in medically related occupations. |
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| I told her about factitious disorder and how I was convinced she was not looking for attention in this manner. |
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| Bundling half a dozen lives in some factitious intertwining is asking for chaos. |
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| It is important to recognize factitious disorders as evidence of psychological disturbance. |
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| A distinction should be made between factitious disorders and malingering. |
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| Feldman is a nationally known expert in the areas of factitious disorders, Munchausen by proxy and malingering, having written three books on these subjects. |
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| Mart argues that our conception of factitious disorder by proxy derives from case studies rather than from scientific testing and that it should not be legally recognized. |
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| The patients were not diagnosed as having a factitious disorder or malingering because their symptoms were judged not to be fabricated, feigned, or intentionally produced. |
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| The nurse informed me he had been carted off to start a course of factitious fever therapy, the only treatment then available to allay the late ravages of the spirochaete. |
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| Finally, for each consultation episode the diagnosis was noted and it was determined whether the episode was medically unexplained, mixed, or factitious. |
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| Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain. |
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| Entering Kalgoorlie to return to Prospector Caravan Park I have the impression to be in a Disney Land's scenery so much the buildings appeared factitious by foil of sharp and recent colours. |
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