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Hypochonʹdria

(Greek, hypo chondros, under the cartilage)—i.e. the spaces on each side of the epigastric region, supposed to be the seat of melancholy as a disease.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Hylech (in Astrology)
Hymen
Hymer
Hymettus
Hymn Tunes
Hymnus Eucharisticus
Hyperboreans
Hyperion
Hypermnestra
Hypnotism
Hypochondria
Hypocrisy
Hypocrite
Hypocrites Isle
Hypostatic Union
Hypped [hipt]
Hyson
Hyssop
Hysteron Proteron (Greek)
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