| 单词 | placebo effect |
| 释义 | placebo effect (once / 69526 pages) n A placebo effect happens when a patient feels better after taking fake medicine, or when they believe they're taking medicine although they really aren't. Scientific studies have shown that people often have a positive reaction (both physical and mental) when they think they're taking a drug or receiving a treatment — even if they're not. This placebo effect has to be accounted for in medical studies, so that researchers know a drug is really working. Often one group is given the substance being studied, and the other takes a placebo. Placebo means "I shall please" in Latin. WORD FAMILYplacebo effect USAGE EXAMPLESPeople may differ in how susceptible they are to the placebo effect. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) “It could be a placebo effect for both of them.” Nature(Nov 29, 2016) It’s not the sugar in the lemonade that produces the sustained mental stamina, but rather the placebo effect at work. Time(Nov 29, 2016) 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 Hyper consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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