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: process: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states → 1
Candidate hypernym: lamp: a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: feed: food for domestic livestock → 0
Candidate hypernym: vanilla pudding: sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs → 0
Candidate hypernym: cape lobster: small lobster of southern Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: caldera: a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression → 0
Candidate hypernym: suborder ceratosaura: primitive saurischian dinosaurs → 0
Candidate hypernym: liter: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) → 0
Candidate hypernym: acetaldol: unsaturated aldol → 0
Candidate hypernym: european magpie: a common magpie of Eurasia → 0
Candidate hypernym: secretary of commerce: the position of the head of the Department of Commerce → 0