His name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)

Usage examples of munchausen.

An especially grotesque form of pathological lying, named after Baron von Munchausen, the world-class prevaricator.

Playing mind games with physicians and nurses-with the health-care system itself Adult Munchausen patients manage to get hospitalized repeatedly, medicated needlessly, even cut open on the operating table.

And taking a history from a Munchausen means relying upon a habitual liar.

Then I went back into my study and reread the Munchausen articles a couple of times over, hoping to pick up something-some clinical cue that I might have missed.

I told him about Cassie Jones, gave him a mini-lecture on Munchausen syndrome.

The typical Munchausen husband is described as passive and weak-willed.

And if she had the typical Munchausen background abuse, incest, illness-I could understand her hitting the bottle.

Something about home setting her off-raising her anxiety and leading to Munchausen manipulation?

Selections from Andersen, The Arabian Nights, Gulliver, and Munchausen, are included.

I took the liberty of interviewing an expert on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy over the phone.

Metz could hint that Mariah has leprosy, schizophrenia, or this Munchausen by Proxy--anything, just so long as it makes Rothbottam sit back and reconsider.

As Elkland outlines Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy for Colin, Metz thinks back to his original ex parte motion, lobbed at the judge for the hell of it, but clearly now an unconscious stroke of genius.

West Coast as we speak, and who will explain why Mariah White exhibits the classic characteristics of a person suffering from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy--a mental illness that would cause her to harm her own daughter.

Isolating the child from the mother is the way Munchausen by Proxy is usually detected by mental-health professionals.

Metz does at his big-city firm, I still have not had a chance to research Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.