Hippocrates

American  

[hi-pok-ruh-teez] / hɪˈpɒk rəˌtiz /

noun

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

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Hippocrates British  

/ hɪˈpɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

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

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Hippocrates Scientific  

/ hĭ-pŏk′rə-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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Hippocrates Cultural  

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

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Other Word Forms

• Hippocratic
  adjective
• Hippocratical
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Hippocrates

With hospitals offline, the cyber-experts worked closely with the Hippocrates maker to work out how many systems had been infected and kick the hackers out.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The Greek medical tradition, starting with Hippocrates, tried to make sickness a secular matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

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.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

Hippocrates even wrote about castoreum’s healing properties of castoreum in 500 B.C.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 15, 2023

It was a practical and effective school of medicine, which Hippocrates insisted had to be based on the contemporary equivalent of physics and chemistry.'

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan