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placebo (/pləˈsiːboʊ/ plə-SEE-boh) can be
roughly defined as a sham
medical treatment.
Common placebos include inert tablets (like
sugar pills), inert...
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Placebo is a
British alternative rock band,
formed in
London in 1994 by vocalist–guitarist
Brian Molko and b****ist–guitarist
Stefan Olsdal.
Drummer Robert...
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Placebo is the
debut studio album by
British alternative rock band
Placebo. It was
released on 17 June 1996 by
record label Virgin. It is the only album...
- Look up
placebo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
placebo is a
substance or
treatment without intrinsic therapeutic value, but
administered as if...
- An
active placebo is a
placebo that
produces noticeable side
effects that may
convince the
person being treated that they are
receiving a
legitimate treatment...
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Placebo-controlled
studies are a way of
testing a
medical therapy in which, in
addition to a
group of
subjects that
receives the
treatment to be evaluated...
- Look up
placebo effect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
placebo effect is the
tendency of any
medication or treatment, even an
inert or ineffective...
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Walter Kennedy in 1961 to
denote the
counterpart to the use of
placebo (Latin
placēbō, 'I
shall please', from placeō, 'I please'), a
substance that may...
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Placebo analgesia occurs when the
administration of
placebos leads to pain relief.
Because placebos by
definition lack
active ingredients, the effect...
- The word
placebo was used in a
medicinal context in the late 18th
century to
describe a "commonplace
method or medicine" and in 1811 it was
defined as...