HYPOCHONDRIAC

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.

2.
a.

Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis. Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.

3.
n.

A person affected with hypochondriasis. He had become an incurable hypochondriac. Macaulay.

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