"placebo effect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: placebo effects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} placebo effect (plural placebo effects)
  1. (medicine, especially pharmacology) A phenomenon where a person's health improves after receiving a treatment that has no direct therapeutic mechanism. Tags: especially Categories (topical): Medicine, Pharmacology Related terms: nocebo effect Translations (tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient): placebo-effect [neuter] (Dutch), lumevaikutus (Finnish), plasebovaikutus (Finnish), effet placebo (French), Placeboeffekt [masculine] (German), placebohatás (Hungarian), effetto placebo [masculine] (Italian), efekt placebo [masculine] (Polish), efecto placebo [masculine] (Spanish), placeboeffekt [common-gender] (Swedish), plasebo etkisi (Turkish)

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