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BIOETHICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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