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Hippocratic Oath

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Noun

1. hippocratic oath

an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hippocratic Oath

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noun
an oath taken by a doctor to observe a code of medical ethics supposedly derived from that of Hippocrates

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Hippocratic Oath

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the oath generally taken by students receiving a medical degree: it is attributed to Hippocrates and sets forth an ethical code for the medical profession

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hippocratic Oath

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n.
An oath of ethical professional behavior sworn by new physicians, attributed to Hippocrates but thought to have been written by a student or contemporary.

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