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Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. Hypochondria is an old concept whose meaning has repeatedly changed over its lifespan. [ 1 ]
For many years, somatization was used in conjunction with the terms hysteria, melancholia, and hypochondriasis. [ 52 ] [ 26 ] Wilhelm Stekel , a German psychoanalyst , was the first to introduce the term somatization , while Paul Briquet was the first to characterize what is now known as somatic symptom disorder. [ 26 ]
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Hypochondriasis, a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. Hypochondrium , an anatomical term referring to regions in the upper third of the abdomen
The word derives from the Greek word υποχόνδριο ("hypochondrio"). This Greek word means literally "below the cartilage" which refers to the costal cartilages.In other words, the word refers to the area of the ventral trunk that is located below the costal cartilages. [4]
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Vietnam is located in the tropical and temperate zone and prone to zoonotic diseases. In recent years, the country has been affected by SARS, avian influenza A(H5N1), influenza A (H5N6), and COVID-19, although the spillovers of viruses from animals to humans is attributed to the agriculture-centered economy and animal consumption.