Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hypochondrium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hypochondriasis.
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- noun Dated form of
hypochondriasis .
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Examples
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To the second, which is busied either in refining the good nourishment or expelling the bad, is chiefly belonging the liver, like in colour to congealed blood, the shop of blood, situate in the right hypochondry, in figure like to a half-moon, generosum membrum Melancthon styles it, a generous part; it serves to turn the chylus to blood, for the nourishment of the body.
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If from the liver, there is usually a pain in the right hypochondry.
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If from the spleen, hardness and grief in the left hypochondry, a rumbling, much appetite and small digestion, Avicenna.
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