BIOETHICS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bioethics" is a kind of...):

ethics; moral philosophy (the philosophical study of moral values and rules)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bioethics"):

neuroethics (the study of ethical implications of treatments for neurological diseases)

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