peregrination

n. excessive traveling from place to place. Peregrination is one of the essential features of Münchausen syndrome: The individual feels impelled to travel from town to town or from hospital to hospital in order to find a new audience every time the false nature of the illness is discovered. Also called itinerancy.

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May 9th 2024

sudden unexpected nocturnal-death syndrome

see nightmare-death syndrome.