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Bromide vs Placebo - What's the difference?

bromide | placebo |

As nouns the difference between bromide and placebo

is that bromide is while placebo is placebo.

bromide

English

(wikipedia bromide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
  • A dose of bromide taken as a sedative.
  • A dull person with conventional thoughts.
    • My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.
  • A platitude.
    • ''We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.

    Synonyms

    * (platitude) platitude; see also

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aluminium bromide, aluminum bromide * americium bromide * ammonium bromide * ammonium bromide * barium bromide * beryllium bromide * bismuth bromide * bromide developer * bromide emulsion * bromide of potassium * bromide paper * bromide print * bromide printer * bromide printing * bromidic * cadmium bromide * caesium bromide, cesium bromide * calcium bromide * cerium bromide * cerous bromide * chlorobromide * chromium bromide * cobalt bromide * copper bromide * curium bromide * deuterium bromide * diazobromide * dibromide * dysprosium bromide * ferric bromide * germanium bromide * gold bromide * hafnium bromide * hexabromide * hydrobromide * hydrogen bromide * indium bromide * iodine bromide * iodobromite * iron bromide * lithium bromide * lithium bromide-dihydrate * manganese bromide * manganous bromide * mercury bromide * monobromide * nickel bromide * niobium bromide * oxybromide * pentabromide * phosphorous bromide * platinum bromide * potassium bromide * radium bromide * rubidium bromide * selenium bromide * silicon bromide * silver bromide * sodium bromide * stannic bromide * strontium bromide * strontium bromide-hexahydrate * sulfur bromide, sulphur bromide * tantalum bromide * tellurium bromide * tetrabromide * thallium bromide * tin bromide * titanium bromide * tribromide * tungsten bromide * uranous bromide * vanadium bromide * ytterbium bromide * yttrium bromide * zinc bromide * zirconium bromide

    placebo

    English

    (wikipedia placebo)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
    • There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
  • (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • * 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
    • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.

    Antonyms

    * nocebo

    Derived terms

    * antiplacebo * nonplacebo * placebic * placebo effect