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placebo

1. Med an inactive substance or other sham form of therapy administered to a patient usually to compare its effects with those of a real drug or treatment, but sometimes for the psychological benefit to the patient through his believing he is receiving treatment
2. RC Church a traditional name for the vespers of the office for the dead
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placebo

[plä′chā·bō or plə′sē·bō]
(medicine)
A preparation, devoid of pharmacologic effect, given to patients for psychologic effect, or as a control in evaluating a medicinal believed to have a pharmacologic action.
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The placebo effect, which used to be regarded as something negative, if not useless, is now getting a second look and unexpected respectability among a growing number of medical researchers and neurologists.
Meta-regression analysis was also made for the association analysis between placebo effect in HbA1c changes and baseline characteristics.
"Most people would say the placebo effect wanes over time.
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(2009) found that runners' performance increased by 6.5%, and that slower runners showed a stronger placebo effect after ingesting purported nutritional ergogenic aids.
But far more frequently, what we know about the elements that contribute to the placebo effect can be applied to enhance the benefits of any treatment.
Anything that threatened the fastidious detection of a predictable cause and effect outcome was conveniently disposed of in a repository labelled the "placebo effect".
Pinpointing the sweet spot of the pain killing placebo effect could result in the design of more personalized medicine for the 100 million Americans with chronic pain.
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