Definition: 'Nonmaleficence'
nonmaleficence
Type: TermPronunciation: non′ma-lef′ĭ-sens
Definitions:
1. The ethical principle of doing no harm, based on the Hippocratic maxim, primum non nocere, first do no harm.
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