Term: active placebo: a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects
Candidate hypernym: placebo: an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug → 1
Candidate hypernym: florist's gloxinia: South American herb cultivated in many varieties as a houseplant for its large handsome leaves and large variously colored bell-shaped flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: chinookan: a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook → 0
Candidate hypernym: woodworm: a larva of a woodborer → 0
Candidate hypernym: rabi ii: the fourth month of the Islamic calendar → 0
Candidate hypernym: garden orache: Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: cell theory: (biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matthias Schleiden and by Theodor Schwann → 0
Candidate hypernym: stigma: an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod → 0
Candidate hypernym: hideousness: dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness → 0
Candidate hypernym: jetsam: the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm → 0
Candidate hypernym: vaisya: a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes → 0