NOUN
- syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found
How To Use Munchausen syndrome In A Sentence
- Nina's unstable, domineering mother Barbara Hershey, a former dancer who never made it beyond the corps, wavers between overbearing concern, vicarious arousal, and Münchausen syndrome by proxy; even she seems to want to get into the sick S&M game, demanding a little too lustfully to Nina, "Take off your shirt!" so that she can inspect her daughter for self-inflicted wounds. Rob Kirkpatrick: Burlesque and Black Swan: The Showgirls of Burlesque vs. the Showgirls of Ballet?
- For decades, physicians have known about so-called factitious disorder, better known in its severe form as Munchausen syndrome.
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy was Morgan Reid's problem-not some bizarre apneic and seizure disorder. Cruel Deception
- It's called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, named after a German count who got off by inflicting pain on himself. A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
