Placebo vs Hypnotism - What's the difference?
placebo | hypnotism |
(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:
As nouns the difference between placebo and hypnotism
is that placebo is placebo while hypnotism is the art of inducing hypnosis.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.
