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Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.

Inflammation of the perichondrium.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

Harm; disgrace; shame. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

Symphyseotomy.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.…

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) Dr. Prior.

The mineral chondrodite. [R.]

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases. Arbuthnot.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

en. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.

Hypochondria. [Colloq.]