hypochondria

  • 21hypochondria —   …

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  • 22hypochondria — hy·po·chon·dri·a || ‚haɪpəʊ kÉ‘ndrɪə / kÉ’n n. obsessive preoccupation with the possibility of becoming ill or with imagined symptoms of an illness (Psychiatry)n. upper abdomen (Anatomy) …

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  • 23hypochondria — [ˌhʌɪpə kɒndrɪə] noun abnormal chronic anxiety about one s health. Origin ME: via late L. from Gk hupokhondria, denoting the soft body area below the ribs, orig. thought to be the seat of melancholy …

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  • 24hypochondria — n. (Med.) Melancholy, spleen, vapors, depression, dejection, hypochondriasis, low spirits …

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  • 25hypochondria — noun (U) a state in which you continuously worry that there is something wrong with your health, even when you are not ill …

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  • 26hypochondria — n 1. imagined ill health, valetudinarianism, anxiety, neurosis, psychoneurosis. 2. depression, melancholy, Psychiatry. melancholia, Psychiatry. hypochondriasis, despondency, doldrums, dejection, low spirits, megrims, the blues, Archaic. hyp …

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  • 27hypochondria — hy·po·chon·dria …

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  • 28hypochondria — n. preoccupation with the physical functioning of the body and with imagined ill health. It may amount to a handicapping neurosis and dominate a person s life. In the most severe form there are delusions of ill health, often associated with… …

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  • 29hypochondria — UK [ˌhaɪpəʊˈkɒndrɪə] / US [ˌhaɪpoʊˈkɑndrɪə] noun [uncountable] a mental condition in which someone worries a lot about their health and thinks that they are ill when they are not …

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  • 30hypochondria — hy•po•chon•dri•a [[t]ˌhaɪ pəˈkɒn dri ə[/t]] also hy•po•chon•dri•a•sis [[t] poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs[/t]] n. psi an excessive preoccupation with one s health, usu. focusing on some particular symptom; excessive worry about one s health • Etymology:… …

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