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词汇 placebo
释义 placebo
noun[ C ]
uk /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/ us /pləˈsiː.boʊ/pluralplacebos
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: 安慰剂
She was only given a placebo, but she claimed she got better - that's the placebo effect.只给她服用了安慰剂,但她说好一些了——这就是安慰剂的心理作用。
something that is given to try to satisfy a person who has not been given the thing they really want: 使人宽慰的事;安抚话
These small concessions have been made as a placebo to stop the workers making further demands.这些小让步就像安慰剂一样,可以避免工人们提出更多的要求。
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placebo | American Dictionary


placebo
noun[ C ]
us/pləˈsi·boʊ/pluralplacebos
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

Examples of placebo


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Update on unethical use of placebos in randomised trials.
Doctors have a succinct phrase for relatively harmless medicine—placebos.
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None of those placebos has reduced unemployment, but they have successfully held wages down.
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The profession will not again put off with placebos.
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Although these do not amount to an economic strategy, they are placebos which are of some benefit.
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I am not sure whether the people of today, particularly the young, would be likely to accept placebos such as that.
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He believes that a proportion of patients should be given placebos and that some of them will get well.
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There are few reports to suggest that it achieves markedly better results than placebos.
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A review of the evidence revealed that in 21 trials acupuncture was no better than placebos in securing long-term abstinence from smoking.
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Perhaps they were all placebos.
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Double blind study of imipramine and placebo for incontinence due to bladder instability.
One of the drinks was nutritionally balanced and contained tryptophan (placebo), the other was identical but contained no tryptophan.
Randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of high-flow inhaled oxygen in acute cluster headache.
Efficacy of pregabalin in neuropathic pain evaluated in a 12-week, randomised, double-blind, multicentre, placebo-controlled trial of flexible- and fixed-dose regimens.
In the flexible-dosage study in patients with spinal cord injury pain, 22% of pregabalin and 8% of placebo-treated patients were responders.
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