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Word | Placebo |
vespers of the office for the dead / The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. / An inactive substance used in medical testing / harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill / a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect. / medicine : a pill or substance that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no physical effect on the patient, | |
Usage | ⇒ The placebo effect cured the patients diseace ⇒ Tom, who had taken the placebo, found that his allergy symptoms did not go away. ⇒ In a controlled experiment, fifty volunteers were given erythromycin tablets; the control group received only placebos. ⇒ his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years |
Synonyms | antidote, sugar pill, blarney, bracer, alibi, alterant, alterative, analgesic, antibiotic, antifebrile, antifungal, antiinflammatory, antipoison, antiseptic, antitoxin, antitussive, antiviral, apology, beck, bribe, |
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