(1) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
(2) The author has analyzed the dynamics of these variants of the asthenic symptom complex to which, with the progression of the process, disturbances of the non-delirious hypochondria type are added.
(3) High hypochondria scores were related to long duration of tinnitus.
(4) One should distinguish in these patients mental disorders per se (asthenia, depression and hypochondria) and different functional-somatic, vegetative-vascular and senestopathic disorders and their combinations.
(5) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.
(6) Controlled for differences in the sex-, age- and diagnostic-distribution of the two samples, depressive patients in Addis Ababa showed significantly more somatic symptoms, hypochondrias, psychomotor restlessness and delusions of reference and persecution, but markedly less feelings of guilt.
(7) Psychiatric nosology is by no means clear and includes many diagnoses from "hysteria" to "hypochondria" or "psychosomatic", "somatization".
(8) Well movable mass was detected in the right hypochondria region by palpation.
(9) In the development of Freud's theory of the drives, the explanatory concept of the damming up of ego libido proves insufficient and has to be coupled with the notion of primary erotogenic masochism: from this point of view, hypochondria can be seen as a form of binding which thus distinguishes it from other somatic outcomes.
(10) Females of the PD group obtained significantly higher scores than females of the control group for the scales of hypochondria (p less than 0.01), depression (p less than 0.01), hysteria (p less than 0.05), and social introversion (p less than 0.01).
(11) In the 18th century the main varieties of nervous illness - hypochondria, hysteria, the spleen, the vapours and dyspepsia - became included under the general term 'nervous disorders'.
(12) The colitis patients differed from the control persons in respect of their significantly higher scores on the hypochondria scale, the depression scale, the paranoia scale and the scale measuring social introversion.
(14) In regard to the distinction between operated and nonoperated patients, the former group showed a personality with a strong neurotic trait associated with dysphoria and a state of free anxiety tending toward hypochondria.
(15) For the diagnosis of hypochondriacal and hysteroid personality tendencies, a Hypochondria-Hysteria Inventory was developed and employed in 13 different samples with a total of 1206 persons.
(16) Neurosis including borderline case and vegetative dystonia was divided into eight different subtypes comprising borderline, neurasthenic state, hypochondria, obsessive neurosis or phobia, depressive neurosis, anxiety neurosis, vegetative dystonia, and others.
(17) A 73-year-old woman with a history of chronic hypochondria, depression and abdominal symptoms, such as colics, flatulence and changing fecal consistency, was diagnosed as having an "irritable colon" syndrome and "hypochondria".
(18) The hypochondria part is real enough, though – as is the fretting.
(19) The method was the most effective in patients with syndromes of obsessive and hysterical hypochondria as well as in those with cenesthopathic conditions.
(20) However, patients with high scores on test scales such as regression, hypochondria, or emotional vacuity showed better fertility characteristics.
Hypochondrium
Definition:
(n.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acute perihepatitis is an important differential diagnosis in young females presenting with acute pains in the right hypochondrium.
(2) Some technical difficulties due to an inflammatory infiltration in the right hypochondrium tissues were noted.
(3) The authors report the case of a 63 year-old woman who developed high-grade fever with chills, nausea, diarrhea, severe pain in the right hypochondrium, and jaundice after one month's treatment with 300 mg of hydroquinidine hydrochloride daily.
(4) Caecal volvulus is usually associated with a twisted caecum, seen to occupy the umbilical area or left hypochondrium on radiography.
(5) A 31-year-old female presented with a sudden onset of acute abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium.
(6) The plain abdominal film revealed gas in the left hypochondrium.
(7) The patient had complained of abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium and jaundice.
(8) A newborn baby presented with a lump in the right hypochondrium.
(9) They stress the interest of: --preliminary echotomography in patients with palpable masses in the left hypochondrium; --pharmaco-angiography for improved visualization of masses that are only weakly opaque; --a rapid infusion technique, proposed by various authors, which appears to be the most appropriate for the study of this type of mass which is mainly intermittent in its development.
(10) The evolution after Pase was simple in 6 patients: fever, pain in the left hypochondrium, and moderate ileus for 2-3 days.
(11) In idiopathic pancreatitis, 4 therapeutic behaviours which correspond to 4 different clinical types, are to be faced: --or after 5 to 6 days, division of the left hypochondrium with performing of a meticulous cleaning, followed by a large drainage lavage, --if all reanimation measures have failed, earlier surgery, often of the last chance, consisting in necrosectomy as extended as necessary, --in right away appearing pancreatic phlegmon, a very large drainage, --or, a more expecting attitude in cases in which resorption of the necrotic spots appears to be very slow on CT-Scan, but without any clinical abnormality.
(12) Three children presenting with HAV hepatitis had an initial clinical onset suggestive of acute cholecystitis (pain and guarding in the right hypochondrium, fever and delayed jaundice) associated with important ultrasonographic abnormalities, also very suggestive of acute cholecystitis: bladder wall thickness greater than 10 mm (3 cases), the presence of 2 or 3 layers of different echogenicities (3 cases), presence of an ultrasonographic Murphy's sign (one case), contents of the gallbladder echogenic (one case).
(13) The patient who had suffered from intermittent, subcutaneous gnathostomialis for about 10 years, developed pneumonia of the right lower lung followed by swelling on the right hypochondrium, and paresis of both legs accompanied by perianal numbness and retention of urine, and it seems reasonable to assume that the parasite migrated to the lung, hypochondrium, and the cauda equina, respectively.
(14) Fourteen young females with acute pains in the right hypochondrium were admitted to the Surgical Department.
(15) Analysis was made of records available in the disease histories of 270 patients who had referred to the district internist for pains in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium.
(16) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) performed on a young woman who presented with a mass in the left hypochondrium yielded fluid.
(17) It was diagnosed because of the clinical symptoms associated with the hypertension and a pain in the right hypochondrium and nausea.
(18) In acute pancreatitis related to biliary disease, pain is most frequently located in the right hypochondrium and the levels of amylase, GOT, GPT an alkaline phosphatase were higher, although only the last two parameters showed significant differences.
(19) While on therapy, he complained of pain in left hypochondrium followed by palpitations.
(20) It is shown that despite the fact that the endoscopy-performing physician had discovered the indirect signs of biliary diseases, the district internist did not make any attempts at expanding the scope of examinations in order to find out the main cause of pains sensed by the patient in the epigastrium or in the right hypochondrium.