Placebo

//pləˈsiː.bəʊ//

Synonyms for "placebo"

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Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

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medicament medication medicinal drug medicine vesper

Antonyms

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nocebo

Related terms

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drug nocebo

derived

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antiplacebo nonplacebo placebic placebo button placebo effect placebo-controlled placebogenic placebolike placebology placebome

has context

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medicine roman catholic roman catholicism

is a

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consumable product fake medicine medicine sham vesper

related to

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inert medical ethics medicine office vespers

Translations

32 translations across 28 languages.

Bulgarian

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плацебо noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Catalan

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Chinese Mandarin

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安慰劑 /安慰剂 noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Czech

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Danish

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Dutch

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Erzya

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чавоменге noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Esperanto

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Finnish

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lumelääke noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)
plasebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

French

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Galician

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

German

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Placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)
Plazebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Greek

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πλασέμπο noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Hebrew

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פְּלָצֶבּוֹ noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Hindi

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कूटभेषज noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Icelandic

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lyfleysa noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)
þóknunarhrifslyf noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Irish

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Italian

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Japanese

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プラセボ noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)
偽薬 noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Macedonian

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плацебо noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Norwegian

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Polish

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Portuguese

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Russian

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плаце́бо noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Spanish

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Swedish

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placebo noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Tamil

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மருந்துப்போலி noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Ukrainian

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плацебо́ noun (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It's just a placebo.

Source: tatoeba (1453226)

It's only a placebo.

Source: tatoeba (2483477)

We found no evidence to support a beneficial effect on pain, function, and quality of life of ultrasound over placebo in patients with ultrasound-proven plantar fasciitis 6 weeks following treatment.

Source: tatoeba (4258895)

Both nocebo and placebo effects are presumably psychogenic.

Source: tatoeba (5128446)

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