Word
Placebo effect
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
pla-ce-bo ef-fect
Definition
- noun - Any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
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