Hippocrates

[ hi-pok-ruh-teez ]

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

Other words from Hippocrates

  • Hip·po·crat·ic [hip-uh-krat-ik], /ˌhɪp əˈkræt ɪk/, Hip·po·crat·i·cal, adjective

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How to use Hippocrates in a sentence

  • His only hope now lay in the warm friendship which for so many years had bound him to the Hippocrates of the sixteenth century.

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  • Hippocrates, for instance, has a number of recommendations of this combination for wounds.

  • Herophilos had studied medicine under Praxagoras, one of the best-known successors of Hippocrates.

British Dictionary definitions for Hippocrates

Hippocrates

/ (hɪˈpɒkrəˌtiːz) /


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

Derived forms of Hippocrates

  • Hippocratic or Hippocratical, adjective

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Scientific definitions for Hippocrates

Hippocrates

[ hĭ-pŏkrə-tēz′ ]


  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.

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Cultural definitions for Hippocrates

Hippocrates

[ (hi-pok-ruh-teez) ]


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

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