| hippocratic | Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings. 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. Hippocratic oath, an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hippocratic face | Facies hippocratica, a pinched expression of the face, with sunken eyes, concavity of cheeks and temples, relaxed lips, and leaden complexion; observed in one close to death after severe and prolonged illness. Synonym: hippocratic face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic facies | Facies hippocratica, a pinched expression of the face, with sunken eyes, concavity of cheeks and temples, relaxed lips, and leaden complexion; observed in one close to death after severe and prolonged illness. Synonym: hippocratic face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic fingers | See: clubbing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic nails | The coarse curved nail's capping clubbed digits (hippocratic fingers). (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic oath | The oath which all medical doctors take upon graduation from medical school, during commencement, on the duties, obligations, and ethics of those who practice medicine. The oath is attributed to Hippocrates of Cos, a Greek physician known as the father of medicine. (09 Oct 1997) |
| hippocratic school | The followers of the teachings of Hippocrates. See: dogmatic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic succussion sound | A splashing sound elicited by shaking a patient with hydro-or pyopneumothorax, the physician's ear being applied to the chest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abbott's method | A method of treatment of scoliosis by use of a series of plaster jackets applied after partial correction of the curvature by external force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abell-Kendall method | A standard method for estimation of total serum cholesterol involving saponification of cholesterol ester by hydroxide, extraction with petroleum ether, and colour development with acetic anhydride-sulfuric acid; the method avoids interference by bilirubin, protein, and haemoglobin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| activated sludge method | A method of sewage disposal in which the sewage is treated with 15% bacterially active, liquid sludge, which is produced by repeated vigorous aeration of fresh sewage to form floccules or sediment; when this flocculation process is complete, the resulting activated sludge contains large numbers of bacteria, together with yeasts, molds, and protozoa, which actively effect the oxidation of organic compounds; this mixture is piped to a sedimentation tank, the effluent from which is completely treated sewage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Altmann-Gersh method | The method of rapidly freezing a tissue and dehydrating it in a vacuum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Anel's method | Ligation of an artery immediately above (on the proximal side of) an aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Antyllus' method | Ligation of the artery above and below an aneurysm, followed by incision into and emptying of the sac. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aristotelian method | A method of study that stresses the relation between a general category and a particular object. (05 Mar 2000) |