factitious in a sentence

Examples

1. Mellers et al . warn that such tests are neither conclusive nor impossible for a determined patient with factitious disorder to " pass " through faking convincingly.
2. In criterion 3, the article does not set MBI in the general context of Munchausen syndrome and factitious disorders ( which the lead mentions briefly ).
3. There have always been people who faked illness for one reason or another, and for centuries doctors have known about such phony ailments, called factitious disorders.
4. Factitious disorder imposed on another is a condition in which a person deliberately produces, feigns, or exaggerates the symptoms of someone in his or her care.
5. M�nchausen syndrome, a severe form of factitious disorder, was the first kind identified, and was for a period the umbrella term for all such disorders.
6. That same year, Sneed and Bell wrote an article titled " The Dauphin of Munchausen : factitious passage of renal stones in a child ".
7. In the context of a positive Hoover's sign, functional weakness ( or " conversion disorder " ) is much more likely than malingering or factitious disorder.
8. Munchausen Syndrome is a factitious disorder, a mental disorder where a person acts as if he or she is sick to get attention but really are completely fine.
9. Women are believed to develop factitious disorders more often than men, said Beatrice Crofts Yorker, a Georgia psychiatric nurse and attorney who also will speak at the conference.
10. Feldman said most people with factitious disorders were " longing for nurturing, sympathy, care and concern that they feel unable to get in appropriate ways ."