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Noun: Hippocrates  hi'pó-kru,teez
  1. Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)

Type of: medic, medical man, medical practitioner

Encyclopedia: Hippocrates, father of Peisistratus

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