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‖ hypochondriasis Path.|ˌhɪpəʊkənˈdraɪəsɪs, haɪpəʊ-|
[f. as prec. + -asis. The formation is unusual, the suffix -asis being almost entirely limited to names of cutaneous diseases.]
Hypochondria in its pathological aspect: a disorder of the nervous system, generally accompanied by indigestion, but chiefly characterized by the patient's unfounded belief that he is suffering from some serious bodily disease. Now regarded as a condition characterized by a morbid preoccupation with one's bodily health together with unfounded beliefs and exaggerated anxieties about real or imagined ailments, usually the symptom of a neurotic disorder.
1766Sir J. Hill (title) Hypochondriasis, a practical Treatise on the Nature and Cure of that Disorder; Commonly called the Hyp and Hypo. 1798A. Crichton Inquiry Mental Derangement II. 339 Hypochondriasis, therefore, is chiefly characterized by erroneous notions relating to the patient's own frame, and by painful corporeal feeling. 1810R. Thomas Pract. Phys., Hypochondriasis bears a strong resemblance to dyspepsia. 1855Asylum Jrnl. I. 214/1 Hypochondriasis and melancholia monomania were not clearly distinguished by physicians until recent years. 1866–80A. Flint Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 854 The name hypochondriasis..has very little significance as indicating the character and seat of the affection. 1905M. Craig Psychol. Med. vii. 114 Though hypochondriasis is usually found in patients in whom no known bodily disease can be diagnosed, it may be associated with organic disease, the hypochondriacal symptoms being..the patient's misinterpretation of true physical signs. 1956H. P. Laughlin Neuroses Clin. Pract. x. 451 Sigmund Freud very early included Neurasthenia, along with Anxiety Neurosis and Hypochondriasis, as the so-called ‘actual neuroses’. Ibid. xi. 500 In some psychiatric quarters today Hypochondriasis is regarded simply as a symptom complex, or merely as a manifestation which is present as a part of many other emotional reactions, rather than as a separate diagnostic entity. |