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What does hypochondriasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
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He associated it with irritative dyspepsia, hypochondriasis, and exhaustion of nerve-power.
Liver qi stagnation will give rise to stuffiness and fullness of the chest, unhappy feelings, hypochondriasis, or even mental depression.
Too many reports of adverse effects exist for this to be dismissed as hypochondriasis or people's resentment of food interference.
Two patients fulfilled the criteria for hypochondriasis and 18 for the chronic benign pain syndrome.
Cases of melancholia and of hypochondriasis have been cured simply by the discovery and removal of rectal impactions.
His entire bizarre lifestyle the drapes, the wheelchair, the pills was hypochondriasis writ large.

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