hypochondrium
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hypochondria
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of hypochondrium
1690–1700; < New Latin < Greek hypochóndrion abdomen. See hypochondria, -ium
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It is not hepatitis that we are called upon to cure; it is to relieve a pain in the shoulder and in the hypochondrium, or a difficulty of lying on the left side.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It had during its continuance brought on breathlessness on exertion, and what she called spasms or "grippings at the heart," no doubt the basis of her uneasy feelings in left hypochondrium.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
On two separate occasions this patient was attacked with pain of a precisely similar kind, but limited to the right hypochondrium, attended with great depression of spirits, and followed by a well-pronounced jaundice.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
Under these circumstances she was attacked with intermittent pains, in the right hypochondrium, of intolerable severity; resembling, in fact, the pain of biliary calculus, but without the sense of abdominal constriction, and without any vomiting.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
In such cases there is not only spinal tenderness, but very usually also a well-marked tenderness in the epigastrium and the left hypochondrium, the trepied hysterique of Briquet.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
Kelly has spoken about issues outside the ring and struggles with chronic hypochondria that led to his one and only career defeat against David Avanesyan - but those problems appear firmly in the past.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
In between unfolds a drama of infidelity, jealousy and, as embodied by Mr. Allen’s character, hypochondria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
James Gorman is a long-time science writer and the author of books on hypochondria, penguins, dinosaurs and the ocean around Antarctica.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
She's very, well, a lot and her obsessive compulsive tendencies and hypochondria are played at first in "A League of Their Own" as over the top, for cheap-feeling laughs.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
Her lifelong hypochondria had never had a better field in which to flower.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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