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    placebo effect

    noun

    • 1. a beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment: "orthodox doctors dismiss the positive results as a result of the placebo effect"

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