VCR Presentation Lesson 6
Ethan Huang
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The Word
1. a psychological disorder characterized by the illusory conviction that one is ill or in pain, or likely to become so
Psychiatrists use this word as a medical term to describe a person who fits its description. This term is also known as hypochondriasis or health anxiety.
Its Roots
khondros (G.) "cartilege"
The ancient Greeks believed that the delusions of illness came from the abdomen, typically located from under the cartilege of the breastbone.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Alternate forms
a person who is abnormally anxious about his health
hypochondriacal (adjective)
purely the adjective form
Use in Psychology
Sheldon Cooper from the The Big Bang Theory is a huge hypochondriac, always concerned over the littlest things about his health that he mistakes as deadly diseases.
Choose the letter in which the word is used incorrectly
B. Until he started seeing a psychiatrist, Larry had hypochondria that isolated him from social situations since it made so anxious to face other people in large groups.
C. It was her hypochondria that caused Jill to switch from doctor to doctor, always trying to find out the cause of her headache, even though it was just simply a headache.
D. Instead of trying to suppress his hypochondriacal thoughts, Andrew let them run through his mind, driving him insane with the thoughts of him having serious illnesses that would eventually kill him.