MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

  

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MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

Specialty Definition: MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

DomainDefinition

Health

A phenomenon in which symptoms of a disease are fabricated by an individual other than the patient causing unnecessary, and often painful, physical examinations and treatments. This syndrome is considered a form of child abuse, since another individual, usually a parent, is the source of the fabrication of symptoms and presents the child for medical care. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Trust Betrayed: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Inter-Agency Child Protection and Partnership with Families (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

munchausen syndrome by proxy

61
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 55 4E 43 48 41 55 53 45 4E      53 59 4E 44 52 4F 4D 45      42 59      50 52 4F 58 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010101 01010011 01000101 01001110 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001110 01000100 01010010 01001111 01001101 01000101 00100000 01000010 01011001 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01011000 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#85 &#83 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#78 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#32 &#66 &#89 &#32 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#88 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 004E 0043 0048 0041 0055 0053 0045 004E      0053 0059 004E 0044 0052 004F 004D 0045      0042 0059      0050 0052 004F 0058 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47554837423555533948253594838524947392365925052495859

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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