placebo vs medicine

medicine vs placebo

placebo and medicine both are nouns.

placebo is not a verb while medicine is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
placebo	Yes	No	No	No
medicine	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, medicine is a hypernym of placebo; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than placebo:

placebo: an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of placebo include medicament, medication, medicinal drug.

placebo (noun)	medicine (noun)
(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead	the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug	punishment for one's actions
	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

placebo (verb)	medicine (verb)
	treat medicinally, treat with medicine

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