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  1. Emotional disorder in which a patient feigns
  2. or invents symptoms to secure medical
  3. treatment. In some cases the patient will
  4. secretly ingest substances to produce real
  5. symptoms. It was named after the exaggerated
  6. tales of Baron Munchhausen.
  7.