Definition of Hypochondriacs

1. Noun. (plural of hypochondriac) ¹

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Definition of Hypochondriacs

1. hypochondriac [n] - See also: hypochondriac

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypochondriacs

hypocholesterolemia
hypocholesterolemias
hypocholesterolemic
hypocholia
hypochondres
hypochondria
hypochondriac
hypochondriac region
hypochondriacal
hypochondriacal melancholia
hypochondriacal neurosis
hypochondriacally
hypochondriacism
hypochondriacisms
hypochondriack
hypochondriacs (current term)
hypochondrial reflex
hypochondrias
hypochondriases
hypochondriasis
hypochondriasm
hypochondriatic
hypochondries
hypochondrium
hypochondroplasia
hypochondry
hypochordal
hypochorism
hypochromasia
hypochromatic

Literary usage of Hypochondriacs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory and practice of medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1884)
"The main point in treating hypochondriacs is for the practitioner to try ... As to medicines, something has generally to be administered to hypochondriacs, ..."

2. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"All persons who are possessed by the idea that they are sick, however, are not to be regarded as hypochondriacs, but only those in whom such an impression ..."

3. The Spas of Germany by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1838)
"... hypochondriacs—Their number at Carlsbad— Biliary and other calculi—IMMEDIATE EFFECTS of the water—Erroneous notions— Effects on the author—Mob at the ..."

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