hypochondriac
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“We got lucky,” he said, because the Swedish classification system for health statistics has a separate code for hypochondriasis, allowing data analysis on thousands of people over 24 years, 1997-2020.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023
It is related to hypochondriasis, the clinical term for when people become hyper-focused on potential health problems.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2022
Baker suffers from health anxiety disorder, also known as hypochondriasis.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2020
The old medical term for believing you are sick when you’re not was hypochondriasis.
From Slate • Jul. 6, 2014
It is a marked peculiarity of hypochondriasis that it is far more common in men than in women; a relation which is precisely the opposite to that which rules in neuralgia.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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