Both nocebo and placebo effects are presumably psychogenic.
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Nocebo
//nəʊˈsiː.bəʊ//
Synonyms for "nocebo"
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20 translations across 20 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- nocebo noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Czech
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Danish
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Dutch
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Finnish
1 entries- nosebo noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Galician
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German
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Indonesian
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Italian
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Korean
1 entries- 노시보 noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Macedonian
1 entries- ноцебо noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Norwegian
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Polish
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Portuguese
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Russian
1 entries- ноцебо noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Spanish
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Swedish
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Turkish
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Ukrainian
1 entries- ноцебо noun (a pharmacologically inactive substance experienced as harmful)
Vietnamese
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Sample sentences
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The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect.
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In fact, it is even possible for a patient’s response to a drug product to vary based on changes in the physical attributes of the drug, referred to as the placebo or nocebo effects.
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It is somewhat surprising that little attention has been drawn to the existence of the contrary effect [to the placebo] – which I may call the nocebo reaction.
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