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- noun Plural form of
placebo .
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Examples
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I got her pills and told her they were fertility pills, but they were only what we call placebos.
Family Storms 2011
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I got her pills and told her they were fertility pills, but they were only what we call placebos.
Family Storms 2011
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The miraculous effect of placebos is to be dissected.
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So perhaps these periodic blogswarms are a bit like belief in placebos: Immunologically useful, even if largely based on falsehood.
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Doctors occasionally call placebos "obecalp" as a code name.
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Doctors occasionally call placebos "obecalp" as a code name.
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GUPTA: Researchers say alarm system is less active when drugs called placebos are given to patients.
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Whatever it is, you need to acknowledge it and then access all the best "placebos" you can find.
Alison Rose Levy: Don't Get Depressed Because Your Antidepressant is a Placebo 2008
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Guess what: the patient then goes next door, to one of the 46% of the 57% of the 1200, who will suggest that they take OTC vitamins or other innocuous compounds, typically describing them not as "placebos" but as "a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you."
Archive 2008-10-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Guess what: the patient then goes next door, to one of the 46% of the 57% of the 1200, who will suggest that they take OTC vitamins or other innocuous compounds, typically describing them not as "placebos" but as "a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you."
Medical Journalism -- "Gotcha" Style 1 Dinosaur 2008
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