Hypochondrium Definition

Origin of Hypochondrium

• From Latin hypochondrium, from Ancient Greek ὑποχόνδριον (hupochondrion, “the soft part of the body below the cartilage and above the navel”), from ὑπό (hupo, “below”) + χόνδρος (chondros, “cartilage”).

  From Wiktionary

• New Latin from Greek hupokhondrion abdomen hypochondria

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition