(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.
Physician
Definition:
(n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(2) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(3) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(4) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(5) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(7) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(8) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(9) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
(10) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
(11) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(12) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(13) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(14) Physicians and adolescents differed significantly in the ratings of all but one scale, weight.
(15) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(16) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(17) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
(18) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(19) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
(20) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.