Množina: hippos

(Informal) A hippopotamus.

(Circa 460-377 BC) Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic Oath.
(c. 460-c. 377 BC) Greek physician, often called the founder of medicine. Important Hippocratic ideas include cleanliness (for patients and physicians), moderation in eating and drinking, letting nature take its course, and living where the air is good. He believed that health was the result of the “humors” of the body being in balance; imbalance caused disease. These ideas were later adopted by Galen.
He is known to have discovered aspirin in willow bark. The Corpus Hippocraticum/Hippocratic Collection, a group of some 70 works, is attributed to him but was probably not written by him, although the works outline his approach to medicine. They include Aphorisms and the Hippocratic Oath, which embodies the essence of medical ethics.
Hippocrates was born and practiced on the island of Kos, where he founded a medical school. He traveled throughout Greece and Asia Minor, and died in Larisa, Thessaly.

Množina: Hippocratic oaths

Oath laid down by the Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 bc), who is regarded as the father of medicine. Taken by all doctors on qualifying, it lays down moral and ethical guidelines for the practice of medicine.An oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates.

Množina: hippodromes

ETYM Latin hippodromos, Greek; ippos horse + dromos course, from dramein to run: cf. French hippodrome.
A stadium for horse shows or horse races.

Množina: hippogriffs

ETYM French hippogriffe; cf. Italian ippogrifo. Related to Hippopotamus, Griffon.
A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.

Množina: hippogryphs

Hippogriff, fabulous winged monster with body of horse.

Množina: hippophae rhamnoides

Množina: hippophagies

Feeding on horses.

Množina: hippopotami

ETYM Latin, from Greek; ippos horse + potamios living in the river. Related to Equine.
Large herbivorous, even-toed hoofed mammal of the family Hippopotamidae. The common hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius is found in Africa. It averages over 4 m/13 ft long, 1.5 m/5 ft high, weighs about 4,500 kg/5 tons, and has a brown or slate-gray skin. It is an endangered species.
A social and gregarious animal, the hippopotamus spends the day wallowing in rivers or waterholes, only emerging at night to graze. The pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis inhabits W Africa. To the ancient Egyptians, the hippopotamus symbolized both evil and female fertility.(Irregular plural: hippopotamuses, or: hippopotami).
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa; SYN. hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius.

Množina: hippospongia equinas