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Hippocrates

[ hi-pok-ruh-teez ]

noun

  1. Father of Medicine, c460–c377 b.c., Greek physician.


Hippocrates

/ ɪˈɒəˌپː /

noun

  1. Hippocrates?460 bc?377 bcMGreekMEDICINE: physician ?460–?377 bc , Greek physician, commonly regarded as the father of medicine
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Hippocrates

/ ĭ-ŏə-ŧ′ /

  1. Greek physician who is credited with establishing the foundations of scientific medicine. He and his followers worked to distinguish medicine from superstition and magic beliefs by basing their treatment of illness on close observation and rational deduction.

Hippocrates

  1. An ancient Greek physician (the “father of medicine”) who is credited with founding the study of medicine.
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Derived Forms

  • ˌᾱˈپ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ᾱ··· [hip-, uh, -, krat, -ik], ᾱ···· adjective
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Hippocrates used it to treat wounds, fever and skin sores.

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Finch and co-author Stanley Burstein, a historian at California State University, Los Angeles, pored over a major body of ancient medical writing by Hippocrates and his followers.

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If, like Hippocrates, we consider food and drugs as serving the same function, we can incorporate concepts of medicine into our eating habits.

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To make it weirder, the association that trained Johnson bases their ideas on the teachings of the Greek physician Hippocrates, who died in 370 B.C., and believed that women's wombs could "wander" through their bodies.

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“Hippocrates proclaimed that ‘walking is man’s best medicine.’

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