Hippocratic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hippocratic \Hip"po*crat"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Hippocratic face} [L. facies Hippocratica], the change
        produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness,


        excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The
        nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow,
        the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead
        tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent,
        relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described
        by Hippocrates. --Dunglison.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hippocratic
       adj : of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that
             took his name