HYPOCHONDRIUM (hypochondria)

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Irregular inflected form: hypochondria   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypochondrium mean? 

• HYPOCHONDRIUM (noun)
  The noun HYPOCHONDRIUM has 1 sense:

1. the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium

  Familiarity information: HYPOCHONDRIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOCHONDRIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hypochondrium" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Holonyms ("hypochondrium" is a part of...):

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

 Context examples 

A triangular-shaped organ located under the diaphragm in the right hypochondrium.

(Liver, NCI Thesaurus)

This is hypochondria, Jane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)