English Explanatory Dictionary

worried well

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Users of medical or psychiatric services who are not suffering from any diagnosable disease.

Word forms

worried well

Etymology

Coined in 1970 by Sidney Garfield, founder of Kaiser Permanente.

Related words

hypochondria
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on W Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary