placebo effect
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[edit] Noun
placebo effect (plural placebo effects)
- (pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.
[edit] Translations
tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient
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