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The word is to malinger. A person who feigns illness or false symptoms is called a malingerer.
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What is the word for creating false symptoms to avoid work?
malinger feign faking
Creating false symptoms to avoid work?
Faking illness to avoid work is called malingering. It comes from the French word, malingre which means sickly. Someone who does this is called a malingerer.
What are False symptoms?
Malingering
What does a medical assistant report when a urinalysis produces a false positive result for a medical condition?
A positive result, obviously, since the assistant has no way of knowing that it is a false-positive. It is up to the doctor to consider the odds that the test was a false positive (see: test specificity and sensitivity) together with clinical signs, symptoms, history, epidemiology, and the results of other tests in making a diagnosis
What is the medical term meaning false pregnancy?
pseudocyesisPseudocyesis is the medical term for a condition where a person is not really pregnant, but their mind believes it so much that they get the physical symptoms of being pregnant.
What is the medical term meaning false sensation?
Pseudesthesia is the medical term meaning false sensation.
Are two symptoms of diabetes sudden?
False
Is lyme disease an asymptomatic illness?
No, it has symptoms. If no symptoms and a positive test, it is likely a false positive.
Diabetic nephropathy usually has symptoms early on?
False
Did Richard Wagner not succeed in creating great operas?
false
What is the medical term meaning false limb?
A false limb is a prosthetic limb.
True or False is Medical insurance and health insurance are interchangeable terms?
false
