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Hippocratic

Hippocratic

14 9.9
Relating to the ancient doctor Hippocrates or his ideas about medicine
  • adjective
  • /ˌhɪpəˈkrætɪk/
  • Formal
translation icon : hipocrático
  • First, much weight is placed on the Hippocratic injunction to do no harm.
  • Hippocratic Oath
  • Hippocratic physician
  • Hippocratic tradition

Like a leader of Hamas who's in prison because I've taken the Hippocratic Oath, I have to save that person.

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Examples

  • Abortions are mentioned in the Hippocratic Oath (as something doctors should not do).

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  • The duty of medical confidentiality is enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath.

    Academic text (2012)
  • There goes your Hippocratic oath.

  • With this piece of paper, you can save my life and keep your Hippocratic oath.

  • Are you familiar with the Hippocratic Oath?

  • I think that Western civilization has done fairly well with the Hippocratic Oath.

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  • Could you recite the Hippocratic Oath for me?

  • I think all of us want, first and foremost, to adhere to the Hippocratic oath, and do no harm.

  • She stated on several occasions that they are dismissing the Hippocratic oath, the very oath that says doctors need to protect life.

  • For over 2,000 years, health professionals have been guided by the Hippocratic principle, "First, do no harm."

Compounds

7 5.6

A promise doctors make to put patients' health first

Surface Forms

Hippocratic positive

Morphology

Hippocratic = Hippocrates (transparent) = Hippocrates + ic

Formed by adding the productive adjective-forming suffix '-ic' to the proper name Hippocrates to mean 'relating to Hippocrates' which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Hippocratic comes from the name of the ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates, who set early rules for medicine and gave his name to the famous Hippocratic Oath. His name starts with hippo-, which means 'horse', as in the word 'hippopotamus', and today Hippocratic means 'connected to Hippocrates or his ideas about medicine'.