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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pluh-see-boh for 1; plah-chey-boh for 2
Phonetic Transcription : pləˈsi boʊ for 1; plɑˈtʃeɪ boʊ for 2



Définition of placebo

Origin :
  • early 13c., name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of the Dead, so called from the opening of the first antiphon, "I will please the Lord in the land of the living" (Psalm cxiv:9), from Latin placebo "I shall please," future indicative of placere "to please" (see please). Medical sense is first recorded 1785, "a medicine given more to please than to benefit the patient." Placebo effect attested from 1950.
  • noun fake pill
Example sentences :
  • We'll call this the placebo criticism and will come back to it, too, in a moment.
  • Extract from : « When You Don't Know Where to Turn » by Steven J. Bartlett
  • The dirage was concluded, and vespers for the dead were now commencing with the "Placebo Domino."
  • Extract from : « Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) » by John Roby
  • The placebo effect has become increasingly interesting to psychological as well as medical researchers.
  • Extract from : « When You Don't Know Where to Turn » by Steven J. Bartlett
  • This is a last phase of the metaphysical polity, and is only a kind of placebo.
  • Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics » by Various
  • It is a milder form of this same method to give what the learned faculty term a placebo.
  • Extract from : « The Humbugs of the World » by P. T. Barnum
  • We are interested in what makes the placebo act as effectively as the true medication.
  • Extract from : « A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis » by Melvin Powers
  • With him Placebo justifies his assentation on the ground that lords are better informed than their inferiors.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 » by Alexander Pope

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