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placebo effect

an improvement in a person's medical condition regarded as the effect of the person's belief in the effectiveness of the treatment used

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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