placebo

/pluh-see-boh for 1; plah-chey-boh for 2/US // pləˈsi boʊ for 1; plɑˈtʃeɪ boʊ for 2 //UK // (pləˈsiːbəʊ) //

安慰剂,安置剂,放置物,配套措施

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural pla·ce·bos, pla·ce·boes.
- : Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.Compare nocebo.
- : Roman Catholic Church. the vespers of the office for the dead: so called from the initial word of the first antiphon, taken from Psalm 114:9 of the Vulgate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfake pill

Synonyms

inactive drug不活泼的药物,不活跃的药物,不起作用的药物,不活泼的药 inactive medicine不活跃的药物,非活性药物,不活跃的药品,不活泼的药物 inactive substance非活性物质,无效物质,不活跃的物质,不活泼的物质 sugar pill糖丸,糖片,糖药,糖衣药丸 test substance试验物质,测试物质,检测物质,试验品

Examples

Proof of efficacy requires controlled studies in which some patients get plasma and others get a placebo.
If members of the placebo group contract covid-19 and members of the vaccinated group don’t, that indicates success.
They vaccinated volunteers and then, 24 hours later, gave them either the experimental antibody drug or a placebo.
A large number of people are given either the vaccine or a placebo and then sent back to live their lives, assuming that some of them, at some point, will be exposed to the virus.
Mice treated with a placebo drug or Brd4 inhibitor alone fared worse.
There is some scientific merit to some alternative modalities, such as the well-documented placebo effect.
After the surgery he discovered that he had simply drunk fruit juice with added sugar and he had been given a placebo.
Nobody conceived of a thing like the placebo effect or researcher bias —none of these notions had been worked out yet.
Those who had received the actual drug reported better levels of self-satisfaction than the unfortunates who just got the placebo.
The second is the placebo effect, which will often cause anything presented as medication to “work.”
It is a milder form of this same method to give what the learned faculty term a placebo.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural pla·ce·bos, pla·ce·boes.
- : Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.Compare nocebo.
- : Roman Catholic Church. the vespers of the office for the dead: so called from the initial word of the first antiphon, taken from Psalm 114:9 of the Vulgate.

Examples

Proof of efficacy requires controlled studies in which some patients get plasma and others get a placebo.

If members of the placebo group contract covid-19 and members of the vaccinated group don’t, that indicates success.

They vaccinated volunteers and then, 24 hours later, gave them either the experimental antibody drug or a placebo.

A large number of people are given either the vaccine or a placebo and then sent back to live their lives, assuming that some of them, at some point, will be exposed to the virus.

Mice treated with a placebo drug or Brd4 inhibitor alone fared worse.

There is some scientific merit to some alternative modalities, such as the well-documented placebo effect.

After the surgery he discovered that he had simply drunk fruit juice with added sugar and he had been given a placebo.

Nobody conceived of a thing like the placebo effect or researcher bias —none of these notions had been worked out yet.

Those who had received the actual drug reported better levels of self-satisfaction than the unfortunates who just got the placebo.

The second is the placebo effect, which will often cause anything presented as medication to “work.”

It is a milder form of this same method to give what the learned faculty term a placebo.