Hippocratic oath - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

Hippocratic oath (plural Hippocratic oaths)

  • (medicine) An oath sworn by newly-qualified physicians that they will observe the medical ethics that derived from Hippocrates.
    • Technology doesn’t have a Hippocratic oath.1

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Footnotes

  1. 2019, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, page 182: