pla路ce路bo
[pl蓹藞s膿b艒]
NOUN
a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect:
"his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years" 路
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synonyms:
medication 路 medicament 路 remedy 路 cure 路 nostrum 路 patent medicine 路 quack remedy 路 panacea 路 cure-all 路 drug 路 prescription 路 dose 路 treatment 路 physic 路 medicinal
a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
a measure designed merely to calm or please someone:
"pacified by the placebos of the previous year, they claimed a moral victory"
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Pat during her treatment was approached about doing a couple trials which she did. We to this day do not know if she got the real thing or the placebo. Hers was not for a psychological effect but to help someone down the road. Her regular treatment was not altered but this was an addition.