Nocebo vs Placebo - What's the difference?
nocebo | placebo | Antonyms |
(pharmacology) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
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* 2009 , Stuart Blackman, "
* 2014 , Jennifer Welsh, "
(Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
* 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
Placebo is a antonym of nocebo.
As nouns the difference between nocebo and placebo
is that nocebo is a substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive while placebo is the vespers sung in the office for the dead.nocebo
English
(wikipedia nocebo)Noun
(en noun)Why health warnings can be bad," Financial Times , 25 Apr. (retrieved 12 May 2009):
- In the case of the nocebo , it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist," Business Insider , 15 May 2014):
- It seems to be a "nocebo " effect — the self-diagnosed gluten sensitive patients expected to feel worse on the study diets, so they did.
Antonyms
* placeboDerived terms
* nocebo effectSee also
* drug ----placebo
English
(wikipedia placebo)Noun
(en-noun)- There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
- The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.