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

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

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.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

Hypochondriasis.

False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.