Part 5497

<h1>Hypobranchial</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hy`po*bran"chi*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>hypo-</ets> + <ets>branchial</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.</def></def2>

<h1>Hypocarp, Hypocarpium</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw><hw>Hy"po*carp</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hy`po*car"pi*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>hypocarpium</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ beneath + <?/ fruit.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Cashew</er>.</def>

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<h1>Hypocarpogean</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*car`po*ge"an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>hypo-</ets> + Gr. <?/ fruit + <?/ earth.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Producing fruit below the ground.</def>

<h1>Hypocaust</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hyp"o*caust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>hypocaustum</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ under + <?/ to burn: cf. F. <ets>hypocauste</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anc. Arch.)</fld> <def>A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.</def>

<h1>Hypochlorite</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chlo"rite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A salt of hypochlorous acid; <as>as, a calcium <ex>hypochloride</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Hypochlorous</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chlo"rous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>hypo-</ets> + <ets>chlorous</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.</def>

<cs><col>Hypochlorous acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hypochondres</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chon"dres</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>hypocondres</ets>, formerly spely <ets>hypochondres</ets>.]</ety> <def>The hypochondriac regions. See <er>Hypochondrium</er>.</def>

<h1>Hypochondria</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chon"dri*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.</def><-- as of 1990, the preferred name for the condition in which a person has a morbid concern about illnesses which he imagines are affecting him -->

<h1>Hypochondriac</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chon"dri*ac</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ affocated in the hypochondrium: cf. F. <ets>hypocondriaque</ets>, formerly spelt <ets>hypochondriaque</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.</def>

<cs><col>Hypochondriac region</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hypochondriac</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chon"dri*ac</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A person affected with hypochondriasis.</def>

<blockquote>He had become an incurable <b>hypochondriac</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hypochondriacal</h1> <Xpage=721>

<hw>Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Hypochondriac</er>, 2.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

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