placebo effect vs result

placebo effect and result both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
placebo effect	Yes	No	No	No
result	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, result is a hypernym of placebo effect; that is, result is a word with a broader meaning than placebo effect:

placebo effect: 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
result: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Other hypernyms of placebo effect include consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot.

placebo effect (noun)	result (noun)
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	a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
	the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
	something that results
	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

placebo effect (verb)	result (verb)
	come about or follow as a consequence
	issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
	produce as a result or residue