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   pla·ce·bo

   /pləˈsēbō/

   noun

   • 1. a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect: "his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years"
   • ▪ a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
   • ▪ a measure designed merely to calm or please someone: "pacified by the placebos of the previous year, they claimed a moral victory"

   Word Origin late 18th century: from Latin, literally ‘I shall be acceptable or pleasing’, from placere ‘to please’.

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