(n.) A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(3) Hippocrates, Hunter, Lucas-Championniere, and David advocated judicious motion.
(4) Already Hippocrates recommended decompression-trepanation for the treatment of hydrocephalus.
(5) He studied Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places, which deals with environmental factors, and the treatise On Regimen especially thoroughly.
(6) The meaning of the quotation "I do not give any abortive remedy" is obscure since in other contexts Hippocrates distinguished between abortive and contraceptive drugs and also abortive instruments.
(7) On the basis of these principles, perhaps Hippocrates should be considered the true father of operations performed upon the hand.
(8) Galen was looked as the most famous medical man after Hippocrates.
(9) Hippocrates observed that to maintain health it is important to keep the yellow bile from the liver in balance.
(10) The Z-Plasty was originally described in the writings of Hippocrates and since that time has developed into one of the most useful techniques in facial plastic surgery.
(11) In this context, it should be remembered that Hippocrates and Socrates both emphasized that a good physician should strongly consider the patient's environment as an aid in diagnosis.
(12) Hippocrates (460-375 BC) was the first to describe cutaneous ulcers under the heading of herpes esthiomenos.
(13) By 400BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates (he of the oath) had distinguished between benign and malignant tumours.
(14) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
(15) Greek medical, gyneoclogigcal instruments for adminsitering abortions were described by Hippocrates.
(16) The principles of Hippocrates's teaching and practice with respect to general medicine, sportsmedicine, and orthopaedics are described.
(17) Most of this essay on the abortion problem in French-speaking western Europe concerns the Sermon of Hippocrates forbidding abortion; the discussion ends with an ethical discussion on abortion codes in a pluralist society.
(18) Even though they have been taught since the time of Hippocrates, the specific clinical characteristics of malignant tumors have only recently been apprehended and studied on cellular and biochemical levels.
(19) Hippocrates had plenty of this special sense which, it seems, is not excessive among men.
(20) As Hippocrates so wisely noted, one needed to study the athlete to know, with appropriate modifications, what is best for every patient, young or old.
Hypochondriac
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
(a.) Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
(n.) A person affected with hypochondriasis.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(2) In women, poor outcome was associated with multiple depressive symptoms, depression diagnosed previous to this study, not living alone, low social participation, low self-perceived health, diurnal variation of symptoms, and the occurrence of initial insomnia, loss of libido, and hypochondriacal and compulsive symptoms.
(3) A total of 101 patients suffering from slowly progressive schizophrenia with hypochondriac symptomatology and a manifestation or a relapse of the disease in the involutional age have been studied.
(4) Within the hypochondriacal sample, no correlation was found between the degree of hypochondriasis and the extent of medical morbidity.
(5) These patients become quite anxious and hypochondriacal and begin to avoid certain situations in which they feel a recurrence of a panic attack would be dangerous or embarrassing.
(6) The author analyzes the results of an experimental study into sense regulation of the activity of patients with the hypochondriac syndrome.
(7) We administered two validated scales of hypochondriacal concerns (the Illness Behavior Questionnaire and the Illness Attitude Scales) to 60 medical students and matched law students.
(8) I will discuss the treatment of patients with hypochondriacal depressions.
(9) They were manifested by a number of symptom complexes: hypochondriac (13.6%), anxiety-depressive (18.4%) and paranoid (9.1%).
(10) Non-articulation of conceptual structure was not specific to patients with hypochondriacal symptoms, physical illness or chronic neuroses.
(11) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
(12) Patients with fatigue lasting six months or longer compared with patients with more recent fatigue had lower family incomes and greater hypochondriacal worry.
(13) Are patients who complain of functional digestive tract disorders, constantly seeking medical advice and heavy medication consumers, mentally ill (emotional patients, hypochondriacs, depressive, hysterics), are they just under great stress, or do they indeed have chronic pain pathology?
(14) They were most similar to the latter in their hypochondriacal attitude, and least similar in their psychological perception of illness.
(15) The present article describes four such cases, which fall into the larger category of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychoses, conditions that appear to be related to the paranoid disorders.
(16) Of 100 inpatients with depressive illness, fifty-three had evidence of depressed mood prior to their hypochondriacal symptoms, sixteen had the opposite sequence of development and thirty-one had no hypochondriacal symptoms.
(17) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
(18) Examples are given for various levels of personality organizations and pathology, including neurotic, borderline, psychotic, psychosomatic and hypochondriacal patients.
(19) It was also found that only very few of the children in the study had previous hypochondriacal traits, a fact which contrasted sharply to those of their parents in whom hypochondriacal traits predominate.
(20) Finally, the SDIH appeared to have discriminant validity in that patients diagnosed as hypochondriacal had several other clinical features that distinguished them from the patients who scored above the cutoff on hypochondriacal symptomatology, but failed to be diagnosed as hypochondriacal with the SDIH.