any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
双语例句
Reversal of the effect of naloxone demostrates the validity of this theory. 这就是所谓的安慰剂效应。
After decades in the jungles of fringe science, the placebo effect has become the elephant in the boardroom. 数十年来被视作边缘科学的安慰剂效应，已成为不容忽视的焦点。
