📚 noun • entry_id 43831
hypochondriasis
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hipocondría
A mental disorder (in some classifications of such disorders, including ICD-11) that is characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
Most individuals who previously would have been diagnosed with hypochondriasis in DSM-IV [1994] (preoccupation with having a serious disease based on the individual’s misinterpreta…
Near-synonym: hypochondria
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