Munchausen syndrome by proxy/Related Articles

Munchausen syndrome by proxy: "A phenomenon in which symptoms of a disease are fabricated by an individual other than the patient causing unnecessary, and often painful, physical examinations and treatments. This syndrome is considered a form of child abuse, since another individual, usually a parent, is the source of the fabrication of symptoms and presents the child for medical care." {Medical Subject Headings) ^[e]

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• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Munchausen syndrome [r]: "A factitious disorder characterized by habitual presentation for hospital treatment of an apparent acute illness, the patient giving a plausible and dramatic history, all of which is false" (Medical Subject Headings) ^[e] -->