喜樂美語
  1. 1安慰劑；placebo effect＝安慰劑效應

    A placebo is a fake treatment — a pill or injection with no real medicine in it — that doctors give during a study so they can compare it to the real medicine and see if the real one actually works. Interestingly, sometimes people feel better just from taking the placebo, simply because they believe it will help; this is called the 'placebo effect.'

組成From Latin, where 'placebo' literally means 'I shall please' — from the verb meaning 'to please.'

同家族的字

  • pleaseboth come from the same Latin root, 'placere,' meaning 'to please'
  • pleasantalso from the Latin root 'placere'

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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placebonoun/pləˈsiː.bəʊ/

  • 1

    medicinesciencesA dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.

    • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
    • The trials overall showed some but limited effectiveness, and in one of the largest and longest trials, the placebo performed better in treating spasticity, pain and bladder dysfunction, Dr. Bowling wrote.
  • 2

    CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismThe vespers sung in the office for the dead.

    • There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.

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