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UK
/hˌaɪpəʊkˈɒndɹɪˌæsiz/
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NOUN
- chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
How To Use hypochondriasis In A Sentence
- Note also the profound hypochondriasis and fear that they are being infected by a "cancer"--again, a plot presumably put together by the Jews. Archive 2009-02-01
- True hypochondriasis can be a devastating illness but fortunately affects only about three percent of the population. Dr. Jon LaPook: What Would Susie Say? Susie Essman's Enlarged Prostate
- It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis.
- While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information. Silicon Republic - News
- The Chang Xianyou before the symptom appears has a headache, insomnia, then occurrence angst, nervous, scared, appear next covet of phonism, be murdered and hypochondriasis idea.
- Liver qi stagnation will give rise to stuffiness and fullness of the chest, unhappy feelings, hypochondriasis, or even mental depression.
- Studies have repeatedly shown a higher incidence of anxiety, hypochondriasis, and depression in IBS patients.
- He had a little spike in the hypochondriasis scale—but then, who didn't? The Girls He Adored
- We did not analyze the hypochondriasis subscale.
- Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed. Canada and the States