"placebo effect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: placebo effects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} placebo effect (plural placebo effects)
  1. (pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work. Wikipedia link: placebo Categories (topical): Pharmacology Related terms: placebo 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)
    Sense id: en-placebo_effect-en-noun-HvY8h~d9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

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