Similar words: placebo, effect, effects, in effect, effected, effectual, effective, side effect. Meaning: n. any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs.
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1 Medicine has generally regarded the placebo effect as a nuisance: it does make research on new medical drugs very difficult.
2 However, you then have another problem called the placebo effect.
3 Placebo effect effect of taking a placebo.
4 Improvement After Arthroscopy: The Placebo Effect?
5 Is this the placebo effect?
6 How come they didn't trigger a placebo effect?
7 The placebo effect can be understood only if we acknowledge the unity of mind and body.
8 The placebo effect refers to all the observable behaviors caused by placebo.
9 For drug companies, the placebo effect can pose an obstacle to profits--if their medications fail to outperform placebos in clinical trials,[www.Sentencedict.com] they won't get approved by the FDA.
10 She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.
11 With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, it is less obvious how the placebo effect works.
12 It also hints at a possible biochemical mechanism for the placebo effect, exhibited by about 30% of arthritis sufferers.
13 Horne has his doubts about such treatment, citing a possible placebo effect.
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