Hippocratic oath

English

Noun

Hippocratic oath (plural Hippocratic oaths)

  1. (medicine) An oath sworn by newly-qualified physicians that they will observe the medical ethics that derived from Hippocrates.
    • 2019, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, page 182:
      Technology doesn't have a Hippocratic oath.

Translations

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.