/huy'peuh kon"dree euh/ , n.
1. Also, hypochondriasis /huy'poh keuhn druy"euh sis/ . Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
2. excessive worry or talk about one's health.
[ 1555-65; hypo- HYPO- + chóndr ( os ) ensiform cartilage + -ios adj. suffix ]