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