hypochondriasisn.

1722 Ess. Nature, Use, & Abuse Tea 10 Yet they neither take notice of the Hypochondriasis it self, or any other Disease, whose Symptoms bear any Likeness to those of the Hypochondriasis.

1766 Sir J. Hill (title) Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo.

1798 A. Crichton Inq. Mental Derangem. II. 339 Hypochondriasis, therefore, is chiefly characterized by erroneous notions relating to the patient's own frame, and by painful corporeal feeling.

1801 R. Thomas Mod. Pract. Physic I. 388 Hypochondriasis bears a strong resemblance to dyspepsia.

1833 Foreign Q. Rev. 12 112 Hypochondriasis affects the retired man of business, the disbanded soldier, the sailor paid off; hysteria affects young females.

1873 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 4) 788 The name hypochondriasis..has very little significance as indicating the character and seat of the affection.

1902 G. W. Carryl Grimm Tales made Gay 97 Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, And with expression cynical For half the day a clinical Thermometer she held beneath her tongue.

1956 H. P. Laughlin Neuroses Clin. Pract. 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.

2002 T. W. Glover Rambling with Elusive Dove vii. 86 Those who still lived in Graybar were too entrenched in their hypochondriases to be interesting or even mildly entertaining.