hippocratic oath

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

   Broaderoath

Questions about hippocratic oath

What does hippocratic oath mean?

hippocratic oath means "an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates".

Is hippocratic oath a common word?

hippocratic oath is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.