Placebo
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- A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- Anything of no real benefit which nevertheless makes people feel better.
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Etymology
From Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“I please”).
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