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Showing words for PLACEBO using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Placebo

copable, placebo

6 Letter Words for Placebo

beclap

5 Letter Words for Placebo

becap, belap, bocal, cable, calpe, capel, caple, clape, coble, copal, pablo, paleo, place, ploce

4 Letter Words for Placebo

abel, able, acle, acop, albe, alce, alco, alec, alep, aloe, alop, bale, beal, bela, blae, blea, bleo, bloc, boca, boce, bola, bole, calo, calp, cape, capo, cepa, clap, clep, clop, coal, cola, cole, colp, copa, cope, ecol, lace, lapb, leap, lepa, lobe, loca, lope, olea, olpe, opal, opec, pace, paco, pale, peal, peba, pela, plea, pleb, pole

3 Letter Words for Placebo

abc, abl, abo, abp, ace, alb, alc, ale, alo, alp, aob, apc, ape, apl, bac, bae, bal, bap, bec, bel, blo, boa, boc, boe, bol, bop, cab, cal, cap, cel, ceo, cep, clo, cob, col, cop, cpa, cpl, cpo, ecb, eco, ela, elb, epa, lab, lac, lao, lap, lca, lea, leo, lep, loa, lob, loc, loe, lop, oba, obe, obl, oca, ola, ole, olp, opa, ope, pac, pal, pea, pec, pel, poa, pob, pol

Definitions for Placebo

[1] Medicine/Medical , Pharmacology . a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
[2] Roman Catholic Church . the vespers of the office for the dead: so called from the initial word of the first antiphon, taken from Psalm 114:9 of the Vulgate.
[3] med an inactive substance or other sham form of therapy administered to a patient usually to compare its effects with those of a real drug or treatment, but sometimes for the psychological benefit to the patient through his believing he is receiving treatment See also control group, placebo effect
[4] something said or done to please or humour another
[5] RC Church a traditional name for the vespers of the office for the dead

Words nearby Placebo

place pigalle, place setting, place value, place-kick, place-value, placebo, placebo effect, placeholder, placeless, placeman, placement

Origin of Placebo

1175–1225 for def 2 ; 1775–85 for def 1 ; Middle English < Latin placēbō I shall be pleasing, acceptable

Word origin for Placebo

C13 (in the ecclesiastical sense): from Latin Placebo Domino I shall please the Lord (from the opening of the office for the dead); C19 (in the medical sense)

Synonyms for Placebo

inactive drug, inactive medicine, inactive substance, sugar pill, test substance