Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: consequence: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon → 1
Candidate hypernym: count palatine: a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain → 0
Candidate hypernym: timbrel: small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers → 0
Candidate hypernym: pendulum watch: (18th century) a watch with a balance wheel having a fake pendulum attached to it → 0
Candidate hypernym: durum: wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: stretch: extension to or beyond the ordinary limit → 0
Candidate hypernym: soy: the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) → 0
Candidate hypernym: flowering ash: shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: platycerium: often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns → 0
Candidate hypernym: garden trowel: a trowel used by gardeners → 0
Candidate hypernym: submitter: someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others → 0