Betydelse av placebo på svenska

• 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