hypochonder, -chondre ? Obs.
(hɪpəʊˈkɒndə(r))
Also 6 hypocunder.
[a. F. hypocondre (16th c. in Paré): see next.]
= hypochondrium. Also pl. = hypochondria 1.
| 1547 Boorde Brev. Health clxxxv. 65 Hipocondrion is the greke worde,..in Englyshe it is named Hypocunder. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cliv. 236 Obstructions of the Spleen, and Hypochonders. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xi. 377 That the chief Cure [in Mania] be always directed to the Hypochondres. 1740 Mackarness in Phil. Trans. XLI. 502 A Swelling just above the Groin, in the Left Hypochondre. 1817 Blackw. Mag. I. 565/2 They were magnetised..by the pressure of the fingers upon the hypochonders. 1834 J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 15 This method..consists in pressing forcibly upon the hypochondres from below upwards. |