Какво означава placebo на английски?

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placebo Значение & определение

0 a substance given to someone who is told that it is a particular medicine, either to make that person feel as if they are getting better or to compare the effect of the particular medicine when given to others:
- She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.
- These small concessions have been made as a placebo to stop the workers making further demands.
1 a substance that is not medicine, but that is given to someone who is told that it is a medicine, used to test the effect of a drug or to please a patient

Update on unethical use of placebos in randomised trials.
Doctors have a succinct phrase for relatively harmless medicine—placebos.
None of those placebos has reduced unemployment, but they have successfully held wages down.
The profession will not again put off with placebos.
Although these do not amount to an economic strategy, they are placebos which are of some benefit.
I am not sure whether the people of today, particularly the young, would be likely to accept placebos such as that.
He believes that a proportion of patients should be given placebos and that some of them will get well.
There are few reports to suggest that it achieves markedly better results than placebos.