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placebo English
Meaning placebo meaning
What does placebo mean?
placebo
Synonyms placebo synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as placebo?
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How do I use placebo in a sentence?
Simple sentences
It's just a placebo.
It's only a placebo.
The patients participating in the drug trial don't know if they're receiving the drug or the placebo.
The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect.
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You know, when you're giving a placebo a little bit of pain goes a long way.
They're merely water placebo.
Does that little placebo make either of you feel any better?
Planet Placebo.
I'm in the placebo group.
Or a big fat placebo.
Either modern medicine's working or I tookthe world's best placebo. Either way, I'm going out for a couple of hours.
I'll send her weekly reminders. And when Mr. Neelix becomes convinced that he's suffering from the Toluncan Ague- - which he does every flu season- - don't argue with him, just give him a placebo.
It's what we chemists call a placebo.
Your body might metabolize slower or you could be on the placebo.
Thinking maybe I'm one of the five that got the placebo.
Five of you will get a harmless placebo.
Your right foot, I swabbed with a placebo, regular tap water.
I recommend a placebo pill to sell it to the public, and, provided the containment holds, we should be able to undo the damage.
Well, Harry's never manifested any symptoms. so I just give him a placebo.
Dr. Leslie Coburn has always treated Harry with a placebo. an imaginary cure for his imaginary illnesses.
Whatever you did, Doctor, it worked. Good job. I want to call Dr. Marks and tell him about the placebo.
You know what a placebo is, Eddie?
Anything I give you would only be a placebo.
By the way, what was that placebo we took?
Either modern medicine's working or I took the world's best placebo.
And when Mr. Neelix becomes convinced that he's suffering from the Toluncan Ague-- which he does every flu season-- don't argue with him, just give him a placebo.
He was on a placebo.
In fact, it's more of a placebo than anything else.
You gave me a god-damn placebo?!
Guess we're in the placebo group.
THEY'RE WASTED. THAT'S THE PLACEBO EFFECT WORKING FOR YOU, MY FRIEND.
It's a controlled experiment, minimizes the placebo effect.
Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect.
But eventually the placebo effect dies.
I wanted to eliminate the placebo effect.
News and current affairs
In a study of pilots smoking only a single moderate joint, there was a difference between a placebo control group and those taking cannabis, up to 50 hours after taking the drug.
So far, that evidence is anecdotal; it is hard to exclude placebo effects.
Unlike in a randomized trial, no one would receive a placebo, and it should still be possible to detect which treatments are effective.
An article by the Center for Science in the Public Interest classified all available published placebo-controlled trials of SSRI's in children and adolescents as industry-funded or non-industry funded.
Well-conducted randomized trials incorporate additional safeguards against bias, including use of placebo medication that allows investigators to blind patients and caregivers to whether patients are, or are not, receiving active treatment.
Acupuncture started within 30 days of stroke onset, with control groups receiving a placebo - sham acupuncture - or no treatment.
Acupuncture was found to have no additional effect on motor recovery, but a small positive effect on disability, which may be due to a true placebo effect, or to the varied quality of the trials.
Chesher, 1995; and Ashton, 2001), show the contrary. In a study of pilots smoking only a single moderate joint, there was a difference between a placebo control group and those taking cannabis, up to 50 hours after taking the drug.
The problem is that subjective measures are much more difficult to study - not least because they are associated with high placebo response rates.