Meaning

1 senses
  1. (especially)A phenomenon where a person's health improves after receiving a treatment that has no direct therapeutic mechanism.

    Placeboeffekt

    эффе́кт плаце́боeffékt placébo

More definitions
  • 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

Examples

3 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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  3. So you're saying that the effects of this medication consist only of the Placebo Effect?

    deDu meinst also, die Wirkung dieses Medikamentes beruht nur auf dem Placebo-Effekt?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient:

Forms

plural: placebo effects
Singularplacebo effect
Pluralplacebo effects

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Word family

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