Hippocrates

[ hi-pok-ruh-teez ]

noun

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

Hippocrates

/ hɪˈpɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

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

Hippocrates

/ 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.

Hippocrates

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

Derived Forms

• ˌHippoˈcratic, adjective

Other Words From

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

Example Sentences

Hippocrates used it to treat wounds, fever and skin sores.

From Salon

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

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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

From New York Times