GUARDIAN N

Placebo

Arabic

دمية

Definition

a substance or treatment that has no actual therapeutic effect, used as a control in medical experiments

Example

"Some volunteers used Deet (the world’s most widely used and effective insect repellent), some used a lotion with 2% concentration of catnip, others a 6% catnip lotion, while others used placebo creams."

Antonyms

treatment remedy cure

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