What's the difference between epigastrium and hypochondriac?

Epigastrium


Definition:

  • (n.) The upper part of the abdomen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
  • (2) The carrier state was accompanied by intermittent pain in the epigastrium, diminished appetite, diarrhoea etc.
  • (3) A 45-year-old man was reported who experienced rapid rhythmic nodding of his head and equally rapid contractions in his epigastrium, which participated by certain psychic situations.
  • (4) The patient, a 33 year old male, had suffered from swelling of the chest, neck and face for 4 months; palpitation, chest and epigastrium pain, cough and yellowish sputum for 10 days before admission into our hospital.
  • (5) Within a short time the pain shifted to the right epigastrium, became more intensive (with deterioration during inspiration) and concurrently the patient developed marked muscular tension in the whole right upper abdominal quadrant.
  • (6) Five, however, later had return of pain, but only to the right epigastrium.
  • (7) A palpable, hard, uneven mass was found in the epigastrium.
  • (8) Whole-body scanning, carried out in connection with administration of radioiodine for ablation of remaining thyroid tissue, disclosed an unexpected area of increased uptake in the epigastrium.
  • (9) For several weeks a 27-year-old man had experienced a pressure sensation and noticed a spherical area of resistance in the epigastrium.
  • (10) A longitudinal scan from an intercostal space in the mid-axillary line and a right-anterior-transverse scan from the intercostal space were useful in displaying the right adrenal, and an anterior-transverse scan from the epigastrium was also useful in showing the left adrenal.
  • (11) The majority of bruitswere in the epigastrium, mainly because of a high incidence of celiac artery stenosis usually of the extrinsic compression type.
  • (12) Bleeding from sinuses in the chest wall or epigastrium or repeated hemoptysis were important clinical clues.
  • (13) A significant disproportionate effect on the epigastrium, predicted by the choice of acupuncture points, was found for tolerances but not thresholds.
  • (14) US found dilated intestinal loops and a septate cystic mass in epigastrium.
  • (15) The impedance of the epigastrium to a 4 mA, 100 KHz AC current increases while liquids of low electrical conductivity are being drunk.
  • (16) In the superior mesenteric artery syndrome which may complicate extensive burns, a systolic murmur may be heard in the epigastrium when the patient is supine but not when he is prone.
  • (17) Typical symptoms are acute gastro-intestinal bleeding, chronic gastric pain and palpable tumour in the epigastrium with relatively good general condition.
  • (18) Out of oxyfedrine++ side effects known up to the present (mild agitation, stupor, heat sensation, pains in the epigastrium++, skin allergy) 24 cases of ageusia appearing usually after 4 weeks of treatment with oxyfedrine++ were presented.
  • (19) The authors found with neonatal ultrasound screening a cyst in the epigastrium sized 45 x 18 x 36 mm.
  • (20) On grounds of the case history, the presence of a murmur in the epigastrium, and symptoms of involvement of other arteries it may be assumed that the abdominal abnormalities are of vascular origin.

Hypochondriac


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
  • (a.) Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
  • (n.) A person affected with hypochondriasis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
  • (2) In women, poor outcome was associated with multiple depressive symptoms, depression diagnosed previous to this study, not living alone, low social participation, low self-perceived health, diurnal variation of symptoms, and the occurrence of initial insomnia, loss of libido, and hypochondriacal and compulsive symptoms.
  • (3) A total of 101 patients suffering from slowly progressive schizophrenia with hypochondriac symptomatology and a manifestation or a relapse of the disease in the involutional age have been studied.
  • (4) Within the hypochondriacal sample, no correlation was found between the degree of hypochondriasis and the extent of medical morbidity.
  • (5) These patients become quite anxious and hypochondriacal and begin to avoid certain situations in which they feel a recurrence of a panic attack would be dangerous or embarrassing.
  • (6) The author analyzes the results of an experimental study into sense regulation of the activity of patients with the hypochondriac syndrome.
  • (7) We administered two validated scales of hypochondriacal concerns (the Illness Behavior Questionnaire and the Illness Attitude Scales) to 60 medical students and matched law students.
  • (8) I will discuss the treatment of patients with hypochondriacal depressions.
  • (9) They were manifested by a number of symptom complexes: hypochondriac (13.6%), anxiety-depressive (18.4%) and paranoid (9.1%).
  • (10) Non-articulation of conceptual structure was not specific to patients with hypochondriacal symptoms, physical illness or chronic neuroses.
  • (11) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
  • (12) Patients with fatigue lasting six months or longer compared with patients with more recent fatigue had lower family incomes and greater hypochondriacal worry.
  • (13) Are patients who complain of functional digestive tract disorders, constantly seeking medical advice and heavy medication consumers, mentally ill (emotional patients, hypochondriacs, depressive, hysterics), are they just under great stress, or do they indeed have chronic pain pathology?
  • (14) They were most similar to the latter in their hypochondriacal attitude, and least similar in their psychological perception of illness.
  • (15) The present article describes four such cases, which fall into the larger category of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychoses, conditions that appear to be related to the paranoid disorders.
  • (16) Of 100 inpatients with depressive illness, fifty-three had evidence of depressed mood prior to their hypochondriacal symptoms, sixteen had the opposite sequence of development and thirty-one had no hypochondriacal symptoms.
  • (17) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
  • (18) Examples are given for various levels of personality organizations and pathology, including neurotic, borderline, psychotic, psychosomatic and hypochondriacal patients.
  • (19) It was also found that only very few of the children in the study had previous hypochondriacal traits, a fact which contrasted sharply to those of their parents in whom hypochondriacal traits predominate.
  • (20) Finally, the SDIH appeared to have discriminant validity in that patients diagnosed as hypochondriacal had several other clinical features that distinguished them from the patients who scored above the cutoff on hypochondriacal symptomatology, but failed to be diagnosed as hypochondriacal with the SDIH.