BabelNet

bn:00062717n

Noun Concept

Categories: Ethically disputed medical practices, Deception, Mind–body interventions, extra text, Clinical research

placebo dummy drug Breathe Under Water Cebocap Dummy Pill

An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug WordNet 3.0

Definitions

Relations

Sources

An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A placebo can be roughly defined as a sham medical treatment. Wikipedia

A treatment without intrinsic therapeutic value, but administered as if it were a therapy, either in medical treatment or in clinical trials Wikipedia Disambiguation

A singer of the Office of the Dead which includes the phrase "placebo Domino" meaning "please the Lord", and from that someone who falsely claims a connection to the deceased to get a share of the funeral meal Wikipedia Disambiguation

Substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value, which may encourage the body's chemical processes for relieving pain and a few other symptoms, but have no impact on the disease itself Wikidata

A preparation which is pharmacologically inert but which may have a medical effect based solely on the power of suggestion. OmegaWiki

IS A

HAS KIND

HAS INSTANCE

OPPOSITE OF