| nonmaleficence | medical dictionary |
The ethical principle of doing no harm, based on the Hippocratic maxim, primum non nocere, first do no harm.
Origin: non-+ L. Maleficencia, evildoing, fr. Male, badly, wrongly, + facio, to do, act
(05 Mar 2000)
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