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Definition: Hippocrates |
HippocratesNoun1. Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic Oath (circa 460-377 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hippocrates" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the horsepower". |
Date "Hippocrates" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse, midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hippocrates |
| English words defined with "Hippocrates": Hippocratic, Hippocratic face, Hippocratic oath, Hippocratism ♦ The English Hippocrates. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hippocrates": Climacteric Years ♦ Dogmatic School ♦ Hippocratean School. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Hippocrates": Hippocras. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hippocrates" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Hippocrates). |
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Clever | Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love of humanity. (references; author: Hippocrates) That your food may be your medicine, and that your medicine may be your food. (references; author: Hippocrates) Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. (references; author: Hippocrates) The chief virtue that language can have a clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. (references; author: Hippocrates) | |
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 | First page of "Opusculu[m] repertorii pro[g]nosticon in mutationes aeris..." This is a Latin translation of a work by Hippocrates of the effect of climate on health. It was published in 1485 and is the oldest book in the NOAA Central Library. Call number QC859 .H56 1485.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Hippocrates Tree.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Tree of Hippocrates and its physician].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Surgical Instruments and Apparatus] : The Scamnum of Hippocrates.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Code of medical ethics, 1949] : The Oath of Hippocrates.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Hippocrates | Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love of humanity. |
| That your food may be your medicine, and that your medicine may be your food. | |
| Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. | |
| The chief virtue that language can have a clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You have no effect upon me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing his drugs to Artaxerxes. |
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Health | The early Egyptians wrote about it on papyrus, and the famous Greek physician Hippocrates described it in detail. (references) | |
More than 2,400 years ago the father of medicine, Hippocrates, recognized and described stroke-the sudden onset of paralysis. (references) | ||
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| "Hippocrates" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.38% of the time. "Hippocrates" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 52.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (plural) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Hippocrates": Hippocrates health program ♦ the English Hippocrates. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hippocrates | 278 | hippocrates quote | 5 |
hippocrates oath | 17 | diet hippocrates | 4 |
hippocrates health institute | 16 | hippocrates software | 4 |
hippocrates institute | 10 | hippocrates medicine | 3 |
reinventing hippocrates | 8 | hippocrates illness mental | 3 |
hippocrates pda | 7 | hippocrates palm pilot | 3 |
hippocrates juicer | 7 | hippocrates father of medicine | 2 |
hippocrates picture | 7 | download hippocrates | 2 |
biography hippocrates | 6 | hippocrates hippocratic oath | 2 |
hippocrates palm | 5 | hippocrates quotation | 2 |
hippocrates image | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "Hippocrates"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Hippocrates. (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | Hipokrato. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | Hippocrate. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Ιπποκράτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | Hippokratész. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippocrateshay ชื่อแพทย์ชาวกรีกที่เป็นบิ"าแห่งแพทย์ศาสตร์. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Hippocrates" (pronounced 'Hip*poc"ra*tes'): Acates, Aetites, Another-gates, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cates, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Curtes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Dermestes, Disparates, Ecclesiastes, Ephialtes, Equites, Favosites, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Grammates, Halysites, Hymenomycetes, Intransigentes, Jutes, Lates, litotes, Louchettes, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nereites, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Othergates, PahUtes, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: atrophies, chapiters, choppiest, copperahs, crappiest, hippocras, operatics, poachiest, prophasic, prophetic, spaceport. | |
-3 letters: achiotes, actorish, aphorise, aphorist, apposite, apricots, aspheric, atrophic, chapiter, chapters, chariest, chariots, chippers, choppers, choppier, copperah, copperas, crappies, crispate, croppies, ectopias, epicarps, epitaphs, happiest, haricots, hepatics, hoariest, hoppiest, operatic, parchesi, paretics, pastiche, patchers, patchier, periapts, phorates, phreatic, picrates, piscator, pistache. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: copartnership, pictographies, spectatorship. | |
+3 letters: copartnerships, cryptographies, spectatorships, spectrographic, spermatophytic, spinthariscope. | |
+4 letters: archiepiscopate, computerphobias, cyproheptadines, parthenocarpies, phosphocreatine, pithecanthropus, psychotherapies, psychotherapist, spectrographies, spinthariscopes. | |
+5 letters: archiepiscopates, phosphocreatines, plethysmographic, psychotherapists. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i p p o c r a t e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0070 0070 006F 0063 0072 0061 0074 0065 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275828281698467867185 |
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