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- DictionaryPla·ce·bo/pləˈsēbō/
noun
- 1. 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"
1. : a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder. 2. : an inert or innocuous substance used especially in controlled experiments testing the efficacy of another substance (as a drug)
a substance given to someone who is told that it is a particular medicine, either to make that person feel as if they are getting better or to compare the effect of the particular medicine when given to others: She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.
A placebo is a substance or medical procedure that resembles an actual treatment but does not actually act on a disease or medical condition; in effect it...
Placebo definition: a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.. See examples of PLACEBO used in a sentence.
a substance given to someone who is told that it is a particular medicine, either to make that person feel as if they are getting better or to compare the effect of the particular medicine when given to others: She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.
PLACEBO meaning: a pill or substance that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no physical effect on the patient.
A substance resembling a drug but containing only inactive ingredients, used especially in scientific experiments to test the effectiveness of a drug. Researchers give one group of people a real drug and another group a placebo and then determine whether the people taking the drug get better results than the people taking the placebo.
Are those sugar pills making you feel better? Or did you get the actual medicine? In this case the sugar pills are a 'placebo,' a word that comes from the Latin for 'I shall please.' Read for more on the origin of 'placebo.'
a substance that has no physical effects, given to patients who do not need medicine but think that they do, or used when testing new drugs. the placebo effect (= the effect of taking a placebo and feeling better) Half of the people taking part in the experiment were given a placebo.
placebo meaning, definition, what is placebo: a harmless substance given to a sick per...: Learn more.
