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placebo

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
placebo , inert substance given instead of a potent drug . Placebo medications are sometimes prescribed when a drug is not really needed or when one would not be appropriate because they make patients feel well taken care of. Placebos are also used as controls in scientific studies on the effectiveness of drugs. So-called double blind experiments, where neither the doctor nor the patient knows whether the given medication is the experimental drug or the placebo, are often done to assure unbiased, statistically reliable results. A traditional placebo's lack of side effects, however, often identifies... Read more
Mind Over Matter with Placebos
Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained Mind Over Matter with Placebos A placebo is a tablet or a liquid with no medical qualities that physicians ... pharmacologists who wish to test the effects of a new drug may give placebos to a control group and the real drug to another as a method ... Read more
Placebo
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Placebo (Lat., ‘I will please’). A traditional title for the Vespers of the Dead, so called from the word with which it used to open. Read more

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