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placebo
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a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.
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elixir
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A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life.
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panacea
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cure-all illness. remedy for all disease or ills.
answer or solution to all problems or difficulties |
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nostrum
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A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy.
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salubrious
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favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
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prognosis
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a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, esp. of the chances of recovery.
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malinger
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to pretend illness, esp. in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
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benign
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showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness
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noxious
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harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being
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dyspeptic
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gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable.
a person subject to or suffering from dyspepsia. |
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lunatic
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insane, crazy. wildly recklessly foolish
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irrational
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without or deprived of normal mental clarity or sound judgment.
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psychotic
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characterized by or afflicted with psychosis.
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amuck
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mad with murderous frenzy.
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incoherent
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without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed;
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deranged
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disordered; disarranged. insane
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berserk
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olently or destructively frenzied; wild; crazed;
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demented
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crazy, insane, mad
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neurotic
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pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
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delusional
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a false belief or opinion:
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rehash
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To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration
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doppelganger
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a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
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tautology
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an instance of such repetitio
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alliteration
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words
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reprise
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a repetition.
b. a return to the first theme or subject. |
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reprobate
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a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person
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recurrent
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that recurs; occurring or appearing again, esp. repeatedly or periodically.
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recapitulate
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to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
to repeat |
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perennial
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lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring
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replicate
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to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, esp. for experimental purposes.
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