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Placebo
An inactive treatment often given to a control group.
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Placebo
A placebo is an inactive treatment or procedure. It literally means 'I do nothing'. The 'placebo effect' (usually a positive or beneficial response) is attributable to the patient's expectation that the treatment will have an effect.
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Placebo
An inactive treatment often given to a control group.
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placebo
[n] - an innocuous or inert medication 2. [n] - Roman Catholic Church: vespers of the office for the dead
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Placebo
A non-active treatment applied as a control in a study where psychological factors could affect the outcome. This allows the observation and quantification of any procedural effects involved in the trial that have nothing to do with any administered treatment. See also Placebo effect.
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Placebo
A placebo is a medicine, tablet or treatment that has no active ingredient, typically given to a control group in a trial of a drug, so each patient does not know what he or she is receiving.
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Placebo
An inert substance or intervention designed to appear the same as the experimental substance or intervention, but which has no physiological effect.
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Placebo
An inactive substance used as a comparison with an active drug.
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Placebo
Dummy treatment used in some research trials. One group of patients will get the new treatment and another group will get the dummy treatment. The patients will not know which they are getting and so will not unconsciously affect the results.
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Placebo
An inactive substance or procedure administered to a participant, usually to compare its effects with those of a real drug or other intervention.
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Placebo
a chemically inactive substance given in place of a drug to test how much of a drug's effectiveness can be attributed to a patient's expectations that the drug will have a positive effect
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Placebo
A placebo is a treatment that has no physical effect on a person and is usually used in clinical trials to test the effects of new medicines and drugs
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Placebo
An inactive substance which when administered (under the impression that it is a drug) causes some improvement, which cannot be related to any particular effect of that substance
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Placebo
A placebo is an inert substance or dosage form which is identical in appearance, flavor and odour to the active substance or dosage form. It is used as a negative control in a bioassay or in a clinical study.
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Placebo
In clinical trials, an inert substance identical in appearance to the substance being tested, also known as a sugar pill.
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Placebo
Placebo: A "sugar pill" or any dummy medication or treatment. For example, in a controlled clinical trial, one group may be given a real medication while another group is given a placebo that looks just like it in order to learn if the differences observed are due to the medication or to t...
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Placebo
An inactive treatment often given to the control group in a trial. It is given in an identical form to the active treatment, to eliminate psychological effects on the outcome (the 'placebo effect').
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Placebo
Pla·ce'bo noun [ Latin , I shall please, fut. of placere to please.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. 2. (Medicine) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. To sing place...
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placebo
<pharmacology> Any dummy medical treatment, originally, a medicinal preparation having no specific pharmacological activity against the patients illness or complaint given solely for the psychophysiological effects of the treatment, more recently, a dummy treatment administered to the control ...
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placebo
noun (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
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noun an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
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placebo
(plә-se´bo) a supposedly inert substance such as a sugar pill or injection of sterile water, given under the guise of effective treatment. See also placebo effect. Placebos are sometimes used in controlled clinical trials of new drugs; while some patients selected at random are given the new ...
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Placebo
• (n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. • (n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
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placebo
(from the article `pain`) ...pain that is thought to result from psychological causes alone. These medications reduce anxiety and alter the perception of the pain. Pain seems ...
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(L. 'I will please') any dummy medical treatment; originally, a medicinal preparation having no specific pharmacological activity against the patient's illness or complaint given solely for the psychophysiological effects of the treatment; more recently, a dummy treatment administered to the control...
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