Term: placebo: an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
Candidate hypernym: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: just-noticeable difference: (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected → 0
Candidate hypernym: small capital: a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters → 0
Candidate hypernym: wood ibis: an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics → 0
Candidate hypernym: sling: a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released → 0
Candidate hypernym: celioma: an abdominal tumor → 0
Candidate hypernym: precaution: the trait of practicing caution in advance → 0
Candidate hypernym: cassiri: a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice → 0
Candidate hypernym: curdling: the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid → 0
Candidate hypernym: tribe: a federation (as of American Indians) → 0
Candidate hypernym: malvaviscus: small genus of shrubs of Central and South America: wax mallows → 0