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placebo |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Placebo \Pla*ce"bo\, n. [L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. 2. (Med.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. {To sing placebo}, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: placebo n 1: an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug 2: Roman Catholic Church: vespers of the office for the dead
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