A hypochondriac is a person who continually worries about their health, although there is really nothing wrong with them. someone who always worries about their health and thinks they may be ill, even when they are really not ill
Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected .
() From Ancient Greek ὑποχονδριακός (hupochondriakos, “of the region between the ribs and navel”) ὑποχόνδριος (hupochondrios, “the space between the ribs and the navel”) ὑπό (hupo, “below”) + χόνδρος (chondros, “cartilage”)