placebo effect
NOUN
14 LETTERS · 4 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH P
placebo effect is a valid 14-letter word worth 27 points in Scrabble and 32 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3L1A1C3E1B3O1E1F4F4E1C3T1
3 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 =27 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 54TRIPLE WORD → 81
MEANING
What does placebo effect mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
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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