MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY


Meaning of MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1977

: a psychological disorder in which a parent and typically a mother harms her child (as by poisoning), falsifies the child's medical history, or tampers with the child's medical specimens in order to create a situation that requires or seems to require medical attention — called also Munchausen's syndrome by proxy

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.