placebo effect

English

Noun

placebo effect (plural placebo effects)

1. (medicine, especially pharmacology) A phenomenon where a person's health improves after receiving a treatment that has no direct therapeutic mechanism.

Related terms

• nocebo effect

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
• Turkish: plasebo etkisi

Further reading

• placebo effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia