the act of issuing printed materials | 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 |
the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | |
an opening that permits escape or release | |
some situation or event that is thought about | |
an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | |
one of a series published periodically | |
the becoming visible | |
the immediate descendants of a person | |
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | |
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | |
supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government | |