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111Hippocrates — A great Greek physician (c.460 377BC) who worked on the island of Cos, founded a medical school there, and today is regarded as the Father of Medicine. Hippocrates developed a then new approach to medicine. He refused to use gods to explain… …
112face — 1. The front portion of the head; the visage including eyes, nose, mouth, forehead, cheeks, and chin; excludes ears. SYN: facies (1) [TA]. 2. SYN: surface. bird f. SYN: brachygnathia. cow f. SYN: facies bovina …
113Childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity — Traditionally obstetrics is defined as the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, although in Antiquity surgical intervention did not exist. Without the presence of… …
114Nail clubbing — Clubbing Clubbing of the fingernail. The red line shows the outline of a clubbed nail. ICD 10 R68.3 ICD 9 …
115List of nutrition guides — This is a list of nutrition guides. A nutrition guide is a reference that provides nutrition advice for general health, typically by dividing foods into food groups and recommending servings of each group. Nutrition guides can be presented in… …
116MBA Oath — is a voluntary student led pledge that asks graduating MBAs to commit towards the creation of value responsibly and ethically. As of January 2010, the initiative is driven by a coalition of MBA students, graduates and advisors, including nearly 2 …
117Oath of Maimonides — The Oath of Maimonides is a traditional oath for physicians attributed to Maimonides. It is not to be confused with the more lengthy Prayer of Maimonides. It is often used as an alternative to the Hippocratic Oath. The oath The eternal providence …
118On the Sacred Disease — is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written in 400 BCE. The authorship of this piece can not be confirmed and is therefore regarded as dubious. The treatise is thought to contain the first recorded observations of epilepsy in humans. The author… …
119Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …
120clubbed finger — a finger whose terminal phalanx is enlarged (cf. clubbing), sometimes having a coarse, curving nail called a hippocratic or watch crystal nail. Called also drumstick or hippocratic f …
