hypochondriac
疑病症患者,疑病症者,疑心病患者,疑病患者
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Also hy·po·chon·dri·a·cal [hahy-poh-kuhn-drahy-uh-kuhl] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl/ .
- : Psychiatry. relating to, having, or experiencing hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with one's health: This biography of the poet paints him as a hypochondriac depressive.produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- : exhibiting excessive worry about one's health: Her hypochondriac roommate had been convinced that their apartment was killing them with black mold.
- : Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the hypochondrium.
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- : Psychiatry. a person experiencing or subject to hypochondria.
- : a person who worries or talks excessively about his or her health.
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Examples
As a gadget writer, I know it’s fine, but as a hypochondriac, it hurt a little.
One of the storylines of that movie has hypochondriac Woody enduring a cancer scare.
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
I've met him; he's a bad-tempered hypochondriac, a cynic at heart, and a man whose word is never doubted.
Many a hypochondriac had laughed immoderately at the ludicrous exercises of Crummles and the infant phenomenon!
Hypochondriacs of any sort are a nuisance both to themselves and other people, but none more so than the spiritual hypochondriac.
He chiefly complained of great straitness and pain in the hypochondriac region, very short breath, swelled legs, want of appetite.