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(in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects who are exposed to the variable under study: a lower infection rate in the experimental group that received the vaccine.

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First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.

First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.

First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.

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Words nearby experimental group

experiential, experientialism, experiment, experimental, experimental condition, experimental group, experimentalism, experimentalize, experimental medicine, experimental psychology, experimental theater

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Her taste for ingenuity led to invitations to experimental groups such as New York’s Fiasco Theater, which debuted a zesty “Two Gentlemen of Verona” in her space in 2014.
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Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
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Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.
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Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress.
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Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.
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Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
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Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
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By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
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Louis could not help seeing the lovely group, through the half-obscuring draperies of the open door.
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Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.
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Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

Medical definitions for experimental group

experimental group

[ ĭk-spĕr′ə-mĕn′tl ]

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A group of subjects that are exposed to the variable of a control experiment.

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