BIOETHICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bioethics mean? 

• BIOETHICS (noun)
  The noun BIOETHICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences

  Familiarity information: BIOETHICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOETHICS (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)