虚きょ偽ぎ性せい障しょう害がい

noun

factitious disorder

A psychiatric condition in which a person deliberately produces or feigns physical or psychological symptoms, without obvious external incentives. Used in clinical contexts.

• 虚きょ偽ぎ性せい障しょう害がいの患かん者じゃは、自みずから症しょう状じょうを作つくり出だすことがある。

  Patients with factitious disorder may fabricate their own symptoms.