Antonyms for placebo
pləˈsi boʊ for 1; plɑˈtʃeɪ boʊ for 2place·bo

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1. placebonoun

   Antonyms:
   nocebo

2. placebonoun

   Antonyms:
   nocebo

3. placebonoun

   Antonyms:
   nocebo

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1. • Roman Catholic Church
   • Medicine
   • Vesper

Princeton's WordNet

1. placebonoun

   an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug

2. placebonoun

   (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. placebo

   Synonyms:
   Sugar pill

How to use placebo in a sentence?

1. Michael Bloomfield:

   Larger research studies are needed which include a placebo group and can tease out which specific parts of the psychotherapy the MDMA may be helping with.

2. The FDA:

   The main outcome measured in the trial was whether a patient was hospitalized for any COVID-19 related reason or died from any reason within 28 days of treatment. Overall, two of 279 patients who received Veklury (0.7%) required COVID-19 related hospitalization compared to 15 of 283 patients who received a placebo (5.3%). There were no deaths in either group.

3. Andy Carr:

   It is difficult to support or justify a procedure with the potential for serious harm, even if it is rare, when that procedure offers patients no more benefit than placebo.

4. Giulio Romeo:

   The difference between the groups of patients was significant, blood glucose levels of people on cinnamon would not go as high as the participants on placebo after meals and also would return to baseline much faster.

5. Jonas Bloch:

   The effect of meniscal surgery for younger populations 18-40 years has never been compared with non-surgical treatments (exercise therapy or placebo), the best treatment - surgical or non-surgical - remains to be established in this younger patient group.

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