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Malingerer
Malingerer Ma*lin"ger*er, n. [F. malingre sickly, weakly,
prob. from mal ill + OF. heingre, haingre, thin, lean,
infirm, fr. L. aeger.]
In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who
induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his
duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by
pretending illness or inability.
Meaning of Malingerer from wikipedia
- Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as relief...
- Ross Aaron Malinger (born July 7, 1984) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Jonah Baldwin in the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle, starring...
- or for another) a patient's role. Malingering differs fundamentally from factitious disorders in that the malingerer simulates illness intending to obtain...
- the malingerer is knowingly deceitful (although malingering itself has also been called a mental illness or disorder). Szasz mentions malingering in many...
- Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) is a 75-item true-false questionnaire intended to measure malingering; that is, intentionally...
- and Meg Ryan, alongside a supporting cast featuring Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rob Reiner, Rosie O'Donnell, Gaby Hoffmann, Victor Garber, and Rita Wilson...
- of Memory Malingering (TOMM) is a 50-question visual memory recognition test that discriminates between true memory impairment and malingering, with two...
- positive results) exists, some of which are due to malingering of PTSD. Individuals who malinger PTSD may have several motivations for doing so. First...
- courts, such as absence without leave (AWOL), desertion, political acts, malingering, behaving disrespectfully, and disobedience (see, for example, offences...
- may incorrectly suggest malingering. The Multiscale Dissociation Inventory (Briere, 2002) is well suited to ****essing malingering and dissociative disorders...
