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Placebo:
Placebo:
(Latin: I will satisfy). "A medicine or preparation with no inherent pertinent pharmacologic activity that is effective only by virtue of the factor of suggestion attendant upon its administration." A placebo is frequently used as a negative control in a blind experiment to prevent results from being confounded by the effect of suggestion.
Cf. Dummy, Negative Control Drug, Positive Control Drug
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