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S: MSD — https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/drugs/over-the-counter-drugs/placebos (last access: 17 January 2025); HH- https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-real-power-of-placebos (last access: 17 January 2025).

N: 1. placebo: early 13c., name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of the Dead, so called from the opening of the first antiphon, “I will please the Lord in the land of the living” (Psalm CXVI.9, in Vulgate Placebo Domino in regione vivorum), from Latin placebo “I shall please,” future indicative of placere “to please”. Medical sense is recorded by 1785, “a medicine given more to please than to benefit the patient.” Placebo effect is attested from 1900.

2. A usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder.

— an inert or innocuous substance used especially in controlled experiments testing the efficacy of another substance (such as a drug).
— something tending to soothe.

3. Scientific Research Methods; Psychology; General Medicine, Hygiene and Health: placebo.

  • In a clinical setting, a treatment or intervention that is inactive, but that may act through a psychological mechanism (placebo effect) if the patient believes that he/she is receiving an active treatment or intervention.
  • Its purpose is to help measure or determine the specific action of the treatment being tested.
  • placebo: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.
  • In research, a dummy treatment given to a control group, impossible to distinguish from the real treatment given to the treatment group, used to isolate the effect of the treatment being studied.

4. Cultural interrelation: Music and film.

  • Placebo is an alternative rock band that emerged from the 90s.
  • Placebo (2010) by Nick Slatkin.

S: 1. Etymonline — https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=placebo&type=0 (last access: 17 January 2025). 2. MW — https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/placebo (last access: 13 January 2025). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=placebo&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 17 January 2025). 4. MA — https://music.apple.com/bh/artist/placebo/649817 (last access: 13 January 2025); IMDb — https://www.imdb.com/es/title/tt1245359/ (last access: 17 January 2025).

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CR: clinical pharmacology, drug substance, clinical pharmacology, drug therapy, medication, medicinal, pharmacology, treatment.