Explore Placebo through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like medicine or medication. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Placebo meaning
- A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
Synonyms of Placebo
Using Placebo
- The main meaning on this page is: A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. | The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
- Useful related words include: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug.
- In the example corpus, placebo often appears in combinations such as: the placebo, to placebo, or placebo.
Context around Placebo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Placebo
- In this selection, "placebo" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blind, makes, reduce, group, controlled and effects stand out and add context to how "placebo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include achieve a placebo effect and actually not placebo because you. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "placebo" sits close to words such as aiken, bitterly and blazer, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with placebo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Could this be a classic case of the placebo effect? (10 words)
Approximately 160 patients will be randomized 1:1 to receive fazirsiran or placebo. (13 words)
Both the induction and maintenance studies were randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multi-center studies. (17 words)
But UK regulators have yet to review the ingredient, instead arguing 'no new safety concerns have been identified' even if the evidence suggests they're no better than a placebo when it comes to clearing stuffy noses. (37 words)
Each treatment arm will be compared independently to the placebo arm, and the trial will be determined to be successful if either or both of the cytisinicline treatment arms show a statistical benefit compared to placebo. (36 words)
The authors concluded that maintenance treatment reduced the risk of relapse by 52% compared to placebo, and that this effect was primarily due to recurrent depression in the placebo group rather than a drug withdrawal effect. (36 words)
Could this be a classic case of the placebo effect? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Each treatment arm will be compared independently to the placebo arm, and the trial will be determined to be successful if either or both of the cytisinicline treatment arms show a statistical benefit compared to placebo.
Well, hypnosis — what’s interesting about hypnosis, it’s actually not placebo, because you can give people this drug that makes placebo effects go away, and the hypnosis still works.
Despite employing new strategies to reduce placebo effects, the patients receiving placebo also had a steady lowering of their pain over the course of the study.
The group taking aspirin had an increased risk of death compared to the placebo group: 5.9 percent of participants taking aspirin and 5.2 percent taking placebo died during the study.
Another critic has argued that academic proponents of integrative medicine sometimes recommend misleading patients by using known placebo treatments in order to achieve a placebo effect.
Placebo pills The placebo pills allow the user to take a pill every day; remaining in the daily habit even during the week without hormones.
Recurrent psychotic episodes Placebo-controlled trials of both first and second generation antipsychotic drugs consistently demonstrate the superiority of active drug to placebo in suppressing psychotic symptoms.
The authors concluded that maintenance treatment reduced the risk of relapse by 52% compared to placebo, and that this effect was primarily due to recurrent depression in the placebo group rather than a drug withdrawal effect.
The study found that highly suggestible individuals experienced a greater reduction in pain from hypnosis compared with placebo, whereas less suggestible subjects experienced no pain reduction from hypnosis when compared with placebo.
A double blind, placebo-controlled randomized comparative study on the efficacy of phytosterol-enriched and conventional saw palmetto oil in mitigating benign prostate hyperplasia and androgen deficiency.
An irregular heartbeat was a less common side effect, occurring in 10 participants who received Arexy and 4 participants who received a placebo.
Approximately 160 patients will be randomized 1:1 to receive fazirsiran or placebo.
Based on a 180-patient research, the FDA approved the therapy because, compared to 60% of patients who got placebo tablets, over 88% of those receiving the capsules did not have reinfection after 8 weeks.
Big Pharma marketers know that even the colour of the pills we take changes outcomes, placebo or not.
Both the induction and maintenance studies were randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multi-center studies.
But UK regulators have yet to review the ingredient, instead arguing 'no new safety concerns have been identified' even if the evidence suggests they're no better than a placebo when it comes to clearing stuffy noses.
But when a group of patients switched to a placebo, they regained 14% of their weight over a year.
Could this be a classic case of the placebo effect?
Exercise has been shown in studies to improve sleep, but over-the-counter sedatives and antihistamines haven’t proven a “risk-benefit superiority” over placebo, researchers have reported.
For that reason, when older vaccines are reformulated or updated, studies do not include a placebo group.
Common combinations with placebo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the placebo 33×
- to placebo 22×
- or placebo 22×
- placebo group 12×
- placebo effect 11×
- placebo in 8×
- than placebo 8×
- placebo and 7×
- with placebo 7×
- received placebo 7×