(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:15:57

Hy`po*chon"dri*a (?), n. [NL.] Med.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

<-- as of 1990, the preferred name for the condition in which a person has a morbid concern about illnesses which he imagines are affecting him -->

 

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