matchbox sign

English

Etymology

So called because a matchbox can be used as a container for small objects.

Noun

matchbox sign (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) The characteristic situation where a patient with delusional parasitosis presents the doctor with a collection of fibers or other foreign objects supposedly retrieved from the skin.

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