英语词汇“placebo effect”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

placebo effect

释义

placebo /plə-sēˈbō/

noun (pl placēˈbos or placēˈboes)

A medicine given to humour or gratify a patient rather than to exercise any physically curative effect
A pharmacologically inactive substance administered as a drug either in the treatment of psychological illness or in the course of drug trials
Vespers for the dead (RC)
A sycophant (obsolete)

ORIGIN: From the first words of the first antiphon of the office of vespers, Placēbō Dominō I shall please the Lord

placebo effect noun

A beneficial effect of a placebo, ascribed to the patient's belief in its efficacy

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