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Taxonomy vs Nocebo - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and nocebo

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while nocebo is (pharmacology) a substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    nocebo

    English

    (wikipedia nocebo)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pharmacology) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1961 , year_published= , author= Walter P. Kennedy , by= , title= Medical World , url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13752532 , original= , chapter= The nocebo reaction , section= September , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= , editor= , volume= 95 , page= 203 , passage= It is somewhat surprising that little attention has been drawn to the existence of the contrary effect [to the placebo] — which I may call the nocebo reaction. }}
  • * 2009 , Stuart Blackman, " Why health warnings can be bad," Financial Times , 25 Apr. (retrieved 12 May 2009):
    • In the case of the nocebo , it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.
  • * 2014 , Jennifer Welsh, " Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist," Business Insider , 15 May 2014):
    • It seems to be a "nocebo " effect — the self-diagnosed gluten sensitive patients expected to feel worse on the study diets, so they did.

    Antonyms

    * placebo

    Derived terms

    * nocebo effect

    See also

    * drug ----