factitious disorder

disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q2686385
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factitious disorder

Summary

factitious disorder is a class of disease[1]. It draws 149 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #485 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • factitious disorder's video is recorded as Factitious disorder.webm[3].
  • factitious disorder's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • factitious disorder's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh93000060[5].
  • factitious disorder's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12345783f[6].
  • factitious disorder's IdRef ID is recorded as 04070484X[7].
  • factitious disorder's IdRef ID is recorded as 032425635[8].
  • factitious disorder's subclass of is recorded as mental disorder[9].
  • factitious disorder's Commons category is recorded as Factitious disorders[10].
  • factitious disorder's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D005162[11].
  • factitious disorder's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 70046[12].
  • factitious disorder's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03s_pg[13].
  • factitious disorder's MeSH tree code is recorded as F03.875.375[14].
  • factitious disorder's Disease Ontology ID is recorded as DOID:1766[15].
  • factitious disorder's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Factitious disorders[16].
  • factitious disorder's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX555920[17].
  • factitious disorder's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/factitious-disorder[18].
  • factitious disorder's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 300.16[19].
  • factitious disorder's different from is recorded as malingering[20].
  • factitious disorder's different from is recorded as conversion disorder[21].
  • factitious disorder's health specialty is recorded as psychiatry[22].
  • factitious disorder's health specialty is recorded as psychology[23].
  • factitious disorder's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1766[24].
  • factitious disorder's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1766[25].
  • factitious disorder's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0015481[26].
  • factitious disorder's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0233752[27].

Why It Matters

factitious disorder draws 149 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #485 of 1,968).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved . bne.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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