placebo
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin placere (“‘to please’”).
[edit] Noun
placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)
- (pharmacology) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- Anything of no real benefit which nevertheless makes people feel better.
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a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment
anything of no real benefit which nevertheless makes people feel better
[edit] French
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placebo m. (plural placebos)
[edit] Italian
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[edit] Noun
placebo m. inv.
- (pharmacology, figuratively) placebo
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placēbō
- first-person singular future active indicative of placeō.
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
placebo m. (plural placebos)
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