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Hypochondria. [Colloq.]

, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.

Of or pertaining to a hypoarion.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.

Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.

A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride.

rtaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds. Hypochlorous acid (Chem.), an acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.

The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.

Same as Hypochondriac, 2. -- Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]