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hypochondria
  1. (medicine) A psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.
  2. (medicine) Melancholy; depression
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In fact, depression, paranoid reactions, and hypochondria are quite common among the aged and should be properly addressed.”
      “Along the way, minor ailments were treated and hypochondria dispelled, with adept matter of factness.”
      “For most of my life, I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now.”
hypochondriasis
  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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  3. Examples:
    1. “Two patients fulfilled the criteria for hypochondriasis and 18 for the chronic benign pain syndrome.”
      “It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis.”
      “Too many reports of adverse effects exist for this to be dismissed as hypochondriasis or people's resentment of food interference.”
hypochondrium
  1. (anatomy) The upper region of the abdomen, below the lower ribs, each side of the epigastrium.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For lesions between 5 and 10 cm, the pneumoperitoneum is created in the left hypochondrium and the trocar inserted in the umbilicus.”
      “It is important to underline that concerning the left hypochondrium the needle has to be introducted vertically without raising the wall.”
      “Actually in case of previous history of laparotomy the left hypochondrium is sistematically choosen for the insufflation.”
hypochondres
  1. (anatomy) The regions around the hypochondrium.
hypochondralgia
  1. (pathology) pain in the hypochondrium
hypochondry
  1. Dated form of hypochondriasis.
hypochondriac
  1. A person affected with hypochondria.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It had been established that L'Angelier was a neurotic hypochondriac, prone to bouts of melancholia when disappointed in affairs of the heart.”
hypochondriack
  1. Obsolete form of hypochondriac.
hypochondria
  1. plural of hypochondrium
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In fact, depression, paranoid reactions, and hypochondria are quite common among the aged and should be properly addressed.”
      “Along the way, minor ailments were treated and hypochondria dispelled, with adept matter of factness.”
      “For most of my life, I've gone so far in the opposite direction that if I knew the antonym for hypochondria I'd employ it now.”
hypochondriasm
hypochondriacism
hypochondriacisms
hypochondriases
hypochondriacks
  1. plural of hypochondriack
hypochondriacs
  1. plural of hypochondriac
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Finally, on to a book that will delight social historians and hypochondriacs alike.”
      “And don't you dare think that migraines are just bad headaches for hypochondriacs.”
      “It has been the hot tech topic for hypochondriacs and health buffs for years.”
hypochondrias
  1. plural of hypochondria
hypochondries
  1. plural of hypochondry
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