diff --git a/code/game/objects/items/weaponry.dm b/code/game/objects/items/weaponry.dm
index 033bddff570..cea792b272e 100644
--- a/code/game/objects/items/weaponry.dm
+++ b/code/game/objects/items/weaponry.dm
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ for further reading, please see: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/301
 
 /obj/item/statuebust/hippocratic
 	name = "hippocrates bust"
-	desc = "A bust of the famous Greek physician Hippocrates of Kor, often sighted as the father of western medicine."
+	desc = "A bust of the famous Greek physician Hippocrates of Kos, often referred to as the father of western medicine."
 	icon_state = "hippocratic"
 
 /obj/item/tailclub