What is the meaning of Placebo?

A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.

The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

placebo (dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

placebo

sycophant

placebo, dummy drug

placebo

placebo (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

placebo

placebo

first-person singular future active indicative of placeō

The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

Talk for buttering someone up, making them sycophantic or pleasing them.

A representation or exemplar of adulation or sycophancy.

placebo (dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

refers to the effect or reaction of an individual or group to whom a placebo was given

placebo

1. inert medicine administered for suggestive or psychological purposes, which can alleviate ailments solely through the faith that the patient has in its powers
2. substance without therapeutic effects, administered in a clinical trial to a certain control group
3. active drug used in a condition in which it is inactive, with a similar objective

inert medicine administered for suggestive or psychological purposes, which can alleviate ailments solely through the faith that the patient has in its powers

substance without therapeutic effects, administered in a clinical trial to a certain control group

active drug used in a condition in which it is inactive, with a similar objective

action or measure that is only intended to placate someone, without truly solving a problem (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

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