adj :  simulating a symptom or condition without being pathologically or morphologically genuine < labor pains>  < polycythemia>  <the effusion of lymph, which gradually degenerates into this bony deposit -Robert Chawner>  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  spo·ro·zoa  sup·press 
 
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