Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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upshot | Yes | No | No | No |
placebo effect | Yes | No | No | No |
upshot (noun) | placebo effect (noun) |
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a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | 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 |