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Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
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hypochondriasis
Word definitions for hypochondriasis in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hypochondriasis , also known as hypochondria , health anxiety or illness anxiety disorder , refers to worry about having a serious illness. This debilitating condition is the result of an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind despite the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypochondria \Hy`po*chon"dri*a\, n. [NL.] (Med.) An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called hypochondriasis .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1766, from hypochondria + an unusual use of -osis .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria ]
Usage examples of hypochondriasis.
He had hunted up recipes for spiritual neuralgia, spasms, indigestion, psora, hypochondriasis, just as doctors do for their bodily counterparts.
No one can read understandingly the life of Cowper and that of Carlyle without having some idea of the influence of hypochondriasis and of dyspepsia upon the disposition and intellect of the subjects of these maladies.
Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed.
It increased my own hypochondriasis, but that was still an acceptable price to pay.
I feel confident that many of the forms of indigestion, general ill health, hypochondriasis, etc.
Ancient writers certainly attributed a host of virtues to this plant, especially for the cure of hypochondriasis, and insanity.
Antoninus Musa cured Caesar Augustus of hypochondriasis by means of this plant.
It was the kind of hypochondriasis she had indulged when she was a medical student.