Usually means: Illness faked for psychological benefit.
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  3. Factitious Disorder, Factitious disorder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Factitious disorder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. factitious disorder, Factitious disorder: Merriam-Webster

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  1. factitious disorder: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. factitious disorder: Medical dictionary

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  1. factitious disorder: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Factitious disorder)

noun:  A factitious disorder is a mental disorder in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms, purely to attain (for themselves or for another) a patient's role.

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