Meaning

1 senses
  1. (also, attributive)A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to a previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.

    Nocebo

    ноцебоnocebo

    ноцебоnocebo

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Both nocebo and placebo effects are presumably psychogenic.

    Вважається, що ефекти ноцебо та плацебо - психогенні.

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  2. The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect.

    Ефект ноцебо — протилежність ефекту плацебо.

    ruЭффект ноцебо противоположен эффекту плацебо.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful:
Русский
By meaning 1
a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin nocēbō (“I will harm”), the first-person singular future active indica

Borrowed from Latin nocēbō (“I will harm”), the first-person singular future active indicative form of noceō (“to harm”), by analogy with placebo. The word was coined by Walter P. Kennedy in an article entitled “The Nocebo Reaction” (1961). (see quotation).

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Forms

plural: nocebos
Singularnocebo
Pluralnocebos

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

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