placebo

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/    美 /pləˈsi.boʊ/|/pləˈsiː.bəʉ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
    — The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
  2. The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
    — There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.

词形变化

placebos plural placeboes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiplacebo nonplacebo placebic placebo button placebo-controlled placebo effect placebogenic placebolike placebology placebome
相关词
drug nocebo

词源

Inherited from Middle English placebo, borrowed from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“to please”).
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