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Munchausen's syndrome
Munchausen's syndrome A factitious or sham illness or condition in which the symptoms mimic those of another illness but are clandestinely produced by the patient in himself or herself; or, by proxy, by a parent in his/her child.
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Condition
The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: 1.An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition." 2.A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition." 3.Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition." 4.As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
Proxy
A person appointed to make decisions for someone else, as in a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (also called a surrogate or agent).
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Mullerian-inhibiting hormone
A hormone produced by the fetal testis. Its function is to vestigiate the primordial Müllerian ducts, thus preventing the development of a uterus and fallopian tubes in the male.
Multiphilia
The compulsive condition of recurrent limerence or falling in love and pair-bonding with a new partner for a period of limited duration. It is one of the manifestations of ultraertia. The degree of pair-bondedness with the partner, despite its brevity, distinguishes multiphilia from nymphomania and satyriasis (Don Juanism).
Multiple personality
Split personality; a mental condition in which a person experiences him/herself as two or more different people, differently named, and with major extremes in behavior and life-style, each dissociated from the other, with variable degrees of overlap and shared memory or mutual amnesia Paraphilic sex crimes are commonly committed in a fugue-like, or dual-personality state Transvestophiles have a male and a female personality.
Multiplexed paraphilia
A situation in which a person may mainifest several paraphilic syndromes synchronously with one another.
Multivariate
Having more than one variable, or caused by more than one determinant.
Munchausen's syndrome
Mutable
Transient and able to be changed.
Mysophilia
1. A paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent oneself-degradation and self-defilement by smelling, chewing or otherwise utilizing sweaty or soiled clothing or articles of menstrual hygiene 2. the condition in which a person is dependent on something soiled or filthy, for example, sweaty underwear or used menstrual pads, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. There is overlap between mysophilia, coprophilia, and urophilia.
Myxedematous psychosis
A severe mental illness characterized by depression and watery swelling of the body's tissues brought on by failure of the thyroid gland, which is in the throat near the larynx, to secrete its thyroid hormone.
Morning glory
In sexology, slang term for spontaneous erections happening during waking up.
Man's health
The specific set of health matters and issues pertaining to men.
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