placebo

IPA: pɫʌsˈiboʊ

noun

  • (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
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Examples of "placebo" in Sentences

  • In the first instance, the word placebo comes to mind.
  • PHILIPS: Well, I think there is what we call a placebo effect.
  • But Scriba said doctors aren't obliged to actually use the word 'placebo.'
  • Biases are present in placebo-controlled trials of both homoeopathy and conventional medicine.
  •  The term placebo: an inert medication or bogus treatment that is intended to control for expectancy effects.
  • And although doctors don't have to use the word "placebo," they should tell patients they are getting an unusual treatment.
  • In clinical trials, moodiness was more common among users of Ortho Tri Cyclen than in placebo users, but overall occurred in less than 10% of users.
  • If yesterday was about admitting and addressing the illness, today and tomorrow will hopefully be about prescribing a direction for recovery [not a short-term placebo].
  • The pharmaceutical industry including some prominent researchers and supposed regulators continue to insist that testing new drugs against a placebo is the only way to get scientifically valid and meaningful results even though administration of placebos means some subjects get no treatment at all.

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