experimental group

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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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Words nearby experimental group

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

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How to use experimental group in a sentence

In that study, refugees in an experimental group wrote about meaningful events from their past, while refugees in a control group wrote about ordinary events.
Nostalgia may have bona fide benefits in hard times, like the pandemic|Sujata Gupta|October 12, 2021|Science News
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.
Folger Theatre’s Janet Griffin announces her retirement after decades of devotion to Shakespeare|Peter Marks|January 27, 2021|Washington Post
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.
Asian-Americans Are The New Florida|Tim Mak|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Louis could not help seeing the lovely group, through the half-obscuring draperies of the open door.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
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 ]

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