placebo

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.

   “The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.”

2. isim The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

   “There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.”