placebo Definition
pla·cebo (plə sē′bō)
noun pl. -·bos or -·boes
- R.C.Ch. the first antiphon of the vespers for the dead, beginning with the word placebo
- a harmless, unmedicated preparation given as a medicine merely to humor a patient, or used as a control in testing the efficacy of another, medicated substance
- something said or done to win the favor of another
Etymology: ME < L, I shall please
placebo Usage Examples
Converse of object
- randomize: The study is a randomized, placebo -controlled trial with 108 patients over 12 sites.
- randomize: At this moment there is no single homeopathic remedy that has shown a specific effect in a double blind randomized placebo controlled trial.
- receive: These patients were then compared with ten patients who had received the placebo.
- control: Results from a 2 year double blind placebo controlled trial.
- give: In all four trials the control group was given placebo.
- match: One phase was supplemented with sodium tablets and the other with matched placebo.
Adjective modifier
- double-blind: In a double-blind, placebo controlled study, patients were treated with magnets applied to the skin.
- blind: Results from a 2 year double blind placebo controlled trial.
- matching: Patients randomized to receive adefovir 60mg daily or matching placebo.
- identical: The treatment was 300 mg of enteric-coated aspirin or identical placebo, one tablet daily.
- oral: One study used a sham nCPAP in the control arm, allowing blinding, and the others used an oral placebo.
- double: Results from a 2 year double blind placebo controlled trial.
Modifies a noun
- capsule: The extract, diazepam or placebo capsule was ingested 1 H prior to the recording session ( 17-19 h ).
- pill: Despite the longstanding claims made for arnica, the Exeter team found that it had no more effect than the placebo pill.
- tablet: For eight weeks, half the women received two tablets per day of the combined herbs while half received placebo tablets.
- suicide: Some of the placebo suicides took place while patients were withdrawing from an older drug.
- effect: Indeed, the placebo effect alone can work for some.
- group: In the placebo group, common cold symptoms took an average of eight days to subside.
Preposition: in
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