hypochondria
Noun
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Noun
hypochondria (uncountable)
- (medicine) A psychological [[disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.]]
- (obsolete, medicine) Melancholy; depression
- 1833, Richard Robert Madden, The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, page 96
- Such labours as these, if they do not shorten life, are calculated to make it wretched, for hypochondria invariably follows close upon them.
- 1845, Life of G. W. von Leibnitz. On the basis of the German work of ... G. E. Guhrauer, page 275
- His own temperament appears to have been neither purely sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, nor melancholic [...] not melancholy, since he is entirely free from hypochondria, thinks rapidly, and has an active will.
- 1849, Franz Hartmann, Charles Julius Hempel, Theory of acute diseases, and their homoeopathic treatment, page 200
- Nux likewise corresponds to hypochondria caused by rich and excessive living. In general, Nux is the best remedy for hypochondria arising from a morbid condition of the abdominal nerves ; after dinner, the patients generally experience a feeling of malaise and langour.
- 1833, Richard Robert Madden, The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, page 96
- French: hypocondrie
- German: Hypochondrie
- Italian: ipocondria
- Portuguese: hipocondria
- Russian: ипохо́ндрия
- Spanish: hipocondría, patofobia
- plural form of hypochondrium
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