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| hyp·o·chon·dri·a [ hpə kóndree ə ] |
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1. imagined illness: an excessive, usually long-term preoccupation with health and bodily sensations, accompanied by a deluded conviction of having a serious disease without objective evidence
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2. anatomy
Plural of hypochondrium
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| [Mid-16th century. < late Latin (plural) "upper abdomen" (formerly believed to be the seat of melancholy) < Greek hupokhondrios "under the cartilage of the breastbone" < khondros "cartilage"] |
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