| 释义 |
Noun: placebo effect- 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
Derived forms: placebo effects Type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot Encyclopedia: Placebo effect |