| NOMBRE | phenomenon | efecto placebo | any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo |
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| Sentido | 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. | |
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| General | consecuencia, efecto, resultado | A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
| Inglés | placebo effect | |
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