hypochondriac

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Describing himself as a hypochondriac, the defendant went on to explain that, at the time of the murders, he had been suffering from crippling headaches, was convinced that he had a brain tumour and believed that he was about to die.

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  1. noun A person affected with hypochondria.
  2. adjective Relating to or affected with hypochondria.
  3. adjective Anatomy Relating to or located in the hypochondrium.

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  • I wasn't such a hypochondriac, after all By now you must be reeling from the shock of finding out that I have changed my will and have left you nothing. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • Dylan had never been a hypochondriac, and with me tantalizing him with dreams of glory, it was no surprise he'd gone macho One of the hardest parts of coaching is figuring out whether such injuries are worth worrying about, and there have been myriad occasions on which I'd wished I knew exactly what an ache or pain felt like. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
  • I'm beginning to sound like a hypochondriac, I know, I know ... —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • He was a hypochondriac, a recluse, 'strangely' he didn't use the word 'evolution' in his book, he rushed into print with a book title that wasn't snappy, and he had 'awful misgivings' about his theory. —  Planet Atheism
  • I ` m a happy hypochondriac, says Sir Roger Moore ... —  MI6 :: 007 News
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  1. from French hypochondriaque = Spanish hipocondríaco = Portuguese hypocondriaco = Italian ipocondriaco (cf. D. G. hypochondrisch = Danish Swedish hypokon-drisk) (see hypochondria), from New Latin hypochondriacus, from Greek ὑποχονδριακός, affected in the hypochondrium, from ὑποχόνδριον: see hypochondrium.
 

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