…a small convex beetle which is able to feign death by retracting its legs and contracting into a ball…
…a person, specifically a doctor, who resorts too readily to advocating the use of medication to cure illness rather than considering other treatments…
…a tactic used by a company threatened with an unwelcome takeover bid to make itself unattractive to the bidder…
…a capsule containing a tiny camera that, when swallowed, transmits photographs of the stomach and intestines to a recording device…
…an oral contraceptive containing both an oestrogen and a progestogen…
…a tablet of a drug which helps to induce sleep, such as chloral hydrate or a barbiturate sedative…
…a woodlouse with a thick cuticle, which is able to roll up into a ball when threatened…
…an unpleasant or painful necessity (to accept)…
…make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable…
…a contraceptive pill that is effective up to about seventy-two hours after intercourse…
…an amendment to a legislative bill that considerably weakens the bill’s intended effect, or ruins the bill’s chances of passing…
