Hippocratic
adjective
Hip·po·crat·ic
ˌhi-pə-ˈkra-tik 
: of or relating to Hippocrates or to the school of medicine that took his name
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Clubbed nails, also known as digital clubbing or Hippocratic fingers, describe a downward slope or curve in your fingernails or toenails.
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Mark Gurarie, Health, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of virtuosity, textual fidelity and the pursuit of excellence, music making around vulnerable people calls on a mix of ethical values and social skills — chief among them the Hippocratic injunction to do no harm.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
But that’s one of bit of Hippocratic wisdom that may be overstated.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
And at any rate, Obama did have his Hippocratic creed, an important corrective after the recklessness of the Bush administration.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
But even with Ed Begley onboard as a doctor with tenuous ties to his Hippocratic oath, Elizabeth Perkins steals the show playing Funkhouser’s persnickety new flame, Marilyn.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
The Hippocratic collaboration was one of many announcements from Nvidia’s 2024 GTC Conference, but this AI development was perhaps the most dystopian.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Daniela Rus: Should roboticists consider subscribing to their own Hippocratic oath?
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
The traditional tenets of Hippocratic medicine, which focus on the individual in front of the physician, have been, for all intents and purposes, abandoned.
—Richard T. Bosshardt, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023
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Mark Gurarie, Health, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of virtuosity, textual fidelity and the pursuit of excellence, music making around vulnerable people calls on a mix of ethical values and social skills — chief among them the Hippocratic injunction to do no harm.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
But that’s one of bit of Hippocratic wisdom that may be overstated.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
And at any rate, Obama did have his Hippocratic creed, an important corrective after the recklessness of the Bush administration.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
But even with Ed Begley onboard as a doctor with tenuous ties to his Hippocratic oath, Elizabeth Perkins steals the show playing Funkhouser’s persnickety new flame, Marilyn.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
The Hippocratic collaboration was one of many announcements from Nvidia’s 2024 GTC Conference, but this AI development was perhaps the most dystopian.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
Daniela Rus: Should roboticists consider subscribing to their own Hippocratic oath?
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
The traditional tenets of Hippocratic medicine, which focus on the individual in front of the physician, have been, for all intents and purposes, abandoned.
—Richard T. Bosshardt, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023
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Hippocratic
adjective
Hip·po·crat·ic
ˌhip-ə-ˈkrat-ik
: of or relating to Hippocrates or to the school of medicine that took his name
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