(a.) Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the two remaining patients, long-term follow-up was necessary before a factitious cause was established.
(2) Factitious psychotic symptoms were found in only 13% of the BPD sample.
(3) Septic arthritis is an uncommon manifestation of factitious illness.
(4) Eight of the 13 patients proved to have T-cell lymphoma, two had Crohn's disease, in one the lesion was factitious and two had granulomas without diagnostic histological features.
(5) Clinicians should search for an underlying affective disorder in patients who fabricate signs and symptoms of physical illness, since mania may simulate or contribute to the production of factitious behavior.
(6) Since the factitious use of mineral corticoids is not taken into account, the need of an accurate collection of case history in the differential diagnosis of hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism with hypokalemia is stressed.
(7) No CSF cultures were positive, and a diagnosis of factitious meningitis was eventually established for each patient.
(8) The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition (DSM-III) delineates three categories of factitious disorders: chronic with physical symptoms (Munchausen's syndrome); factitious disorder with psychological symptoms; and other factitious disorders with physical symptoms.
(9) The use of the DSM-III inclusion and exclusion criteria--physical mechanism explains the symptoms, symptoms are linked to psychological factors, symptom initiation is under voluntary control, and there is an obvious recognizable environmental goal--are discussed in the differential diagnosis of somatoform disorder, factitious disorder, malingering, psychological factors affecting physical condition, and undiagnosed physical illness.
(10) A 22-year-old female with factitious sickle cell anemia and recurrent painful crises is described.
(11) To the authors' knowledge, this is both the highest triglyceride level recorded and the first report of a high triglyceride level as the apparent cause of a factitiously low glucose level.
(12) If idiopathic recurrent dermal infection is observed, then factitial origin should be suspected.
(13) From 1971 to 1985, 44 cases of self-induced factitious disorders were observed in the Medical Department of a University Hospital.
(14) This combination of factitious disorders has rarely been reported.
(15) Factitious impairment of stance and gait was studied in 13 healthy drama students.
(16) Factitious cheilitis was proved with biopsy of the lips and pathological findings of acanthosis, hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis.
(17) Factitious illness was denied by the patient until it was definitively proven by using a species-specific insulin radioimmunoassay that the type of insulin circulating at the time of hypoglycemia was of animal rather than of human origin.
(18) Although patients with factitious fever form a small subgroup of all patients investigated for fever of unknown origin, the diagnosis should be kept in mind.
(19) Cases of factitious AIDS have been reported with increasing frequency since the onset of the AIDS epidemic.
(20) The amount of 660-nm light absorbed by methylene blue was sufficient to cause a factitious haemoglobin desaturation as measured by the pulse oximeter.
Fictitious
Definition:
(a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(2) Participants in these three groups responded to questions regarding the ethical parameters of a fictitious psychological research protocol.
(3) Synchronization of fictitious scratching with passive moving occurred at the first movement cycle, the phase correlation between them being contrary to that of real scratching.
(4) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
(5) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(6) Conrad's fictitious province of Sulaco broke away from a South American republic named Costaguana, over a silver mine.
(7) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
(8) The survival signature, i.e., the functional dependence of cell survival from cooling rate (determined at a single location), for a fictitious cell kind is also influenced by the location of temperature determination: the "optimum" cooling rate seems to be shifted, and the shape of the signature is changed depending on the location where the cooling rate is determined.
(9) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
(10) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(11) Fictitious scratching was accompanied by tonic and phasic primary afferent depolarization.
(12) Spiders starting at the fictitious retreat point did not keep straight courses.
(13) China reacted angrily calling the charges "fictitious" and "absurd", and denying that the country had ever been involved in digital theft.
(14) Seven trained persons interviewed three individuals who reported fictitious interrelated life histories varying in length and complexity.
(15) 9% of this cohort refused the repeated (fictitious) surgery.
(16) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
(17) He also said that he had immediately dismissed a request by the reporters to establish an all-party parliamentary group to help their fictitious client.
(18) Claims by the captured Iraqi fighters that they were tortured and some survivors killed were proved to be fictitious by the al-Sweady inquiry.
(19) Even Ethan Lipton's show is in on the joke: his fictitious job is that of an "information-refiner".
(20) The two experimental groups showed no significant differences in the volume of distribution and the fictitious initial concentration.