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

The poppy plant is also referenced in several ancient texts, including the Ebers Papyrus, Hippocrates, Dioscorides's De Materia Medica, and Galen.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

From National Geographic ● Nov. 15, 2023

This explains why there are no parts of the body named after Hippocrates or Galen, no stars named after Ptolemy, no creatures named after Aristotle or Pliny.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton