placebo effect

English

Noun

placebo effect (plural placebo effects)

1. (pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.

Related terms

• placebo

Translations

tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient

• Dutch: placebo-effect n
• Finnish: lumevaikutus, plasebovaikutus (fi)
• French: effet placebo (fr)
• German: Placeboeffekt (de) m
• Hungarian: placebohatás
• Italian: effetto placebo m
• Polish: efekt placebo m
• Spanish: efecto placebo m
• Swedish: placeboeffekt (sv) c