Placebo vs Hypnosis - What's the difference?
placebo | hypnosis |
(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:
a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility]], and in which suppressed [[memory, memories may be experienced
the art or skill of hypnotism
As nouns the difference between placebo and hypnosis
is that placebo is the vespers sung in the office for the dead while hypnosis is a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced.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.