Usually means: Inactive substance mimics real treatment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. placebo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. placebo: Merriam-Webster
  3. placebo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. placebo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. placebo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. placebo: Vocabulary.com
  7. Placebo, placebo: Wordnik
  8. placebo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. placebo: Wiktionary
  10. placebo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. placebo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. placebo: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. placebo: Dictionary.com
  14. placebo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. placebo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Placebo (album), Placebo (at funeral), Placebo (band), Placebo (disambiguation), Placebo (medicine), Placebo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Placebo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. placebo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. placebo: Rhymezone
  20. Placebo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Placebo: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. placebo: FreeDictionary.org
  23. placebo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. placebo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Placebo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Placebo (medicine), Placebo (origins of technical term), placebo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. placebo: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Placebo: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. placebo: Natural Health glossary
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Placebo: HIV/AIDS Glossary
  8. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Placebo: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  10. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  11. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  13. placebo: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  14. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  15. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  16. Placebo: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  17. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  18. placebo: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  19. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  20. placebo: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  21. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  22. Placebo (medicine), Placebo (origins of technical term), placebo: Medical dictionary
  23. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  24. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  25. Placebo: Drug Medical Dictionary
  26. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  27. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Placebo: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. placebo: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Placebo: Medicinal Chemistry
  2. Statistics (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. placebo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See placeboes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

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