[hahy-puh-kon-dree-uh] 
| 1. | Also, hy⋅po⋅chon⋅dri⋅a⋅sis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] . Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems. |
| 2. | excessive worry or talk about one's health. |
[hahy-puh-kon-dree-uhm] [-dree-uh] . Anatomy. | either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions. |
| hy·po·chon·dri·a (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-ə) n.
[Late Latin, abdomen, from Greek hupokhondria, pl. of hupokhondrion, abdomen (held to be the seat of melancholy), from neuter of hupokhondrios, under the cartilage of the breastbone : hupo-, hypo- + khondros, cartilage; see ghrendh- in Indo-European roots.] |
| hy·po·chon·dri·um (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-əm) n. pl. hy·po·chon·dri·a (-drē-ə) The upper lateral region of the abdomen, marked by the lower ribs. [New Latin, from Greek hupokhondrion, abdomen; see hypochondria.] |
hypochondria hy·po·chon·dri·a (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-ə)
n.
The neurotic conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving experiences of pain when illness is neither present nor likely. Also called hypochondriasis.
hypochondrium hy·po·chon·dri·um (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-əm)
n. pl. hy·po·chon·dri·a (-drē-ə)
The upper lateral region of the abdomen on either side of the epigastrium and below the lower ribs.
