HIPPOCRATES - Definition

Pronunciation:		hi'pâkru`teez
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic Oath (circa 460-377 BC)

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	See Also:	medical man, medical practitioner

Products Dictionary

	Definition:	Hippocrates This is the eighth volume in the Loeb Classical Library(R)'s edition of these invaluable texts which are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Paul Potter presents the Greek text and facing English translation for ten treatises that offer an illuminating overview of Hippocratic medicine. more details ...

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Hippoc"rates\, n. A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. {Hippocrates' sleeve}, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.