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placebo effect
[ pluh-see-boh ]
noun
- a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
placebo effect
noun
- med a positive therapeutic effect claimed by a patient after receiving a placebo believed by him to be an active drug See control group
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Word History and Origins
Origin of placebo effect1
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Example Sentences
Even if it’s just the placebo effect, well, that can be incredibly powerful, and if it works for you, keep doing it.
On the whole, ice baths do seem to provide a reduction in associated pain, but the amount it does so might not be any better than the placebo effect.
The apparent benefits of the baking treatment may have partly been due to a placebo effect.
It’s a variation on the placebo effect—your outlook on life literally influences the one you’re living.
Participants reported lower pain intensity from the heat on the “lidocaine” patch of skin, an expected placebo effect.
There is some scientific merit to some alternative modalities, such as the well-documented placebo effect.
Nobody conceived of a thing like the placebo effect or researcher bias —none of these notions had been worked out yet.
The second is the placebo effect, which will often cause anything presented as medication to “work.”
“If this is all some twisted placebo effect, I don't give a damn,” Robertson says.
The placebo effect has become increasingly interesting to psychological as well as medical researchers.
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