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"PLACEBOS" is a plural of: placebo. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PLACEBOS |
| Specialty definitions using "PLACEBOS": Controlled Clinical Trials ♦ orthomolecular therapy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Still, placebos are considered controversial because by definition they are inactive and have no actual curative value. (references) | |
Placebos offer some individuals pain relief although whether and how they have an effect is mysterious and somewhat controversial. (references) | ||
The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PLACEBOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PLACEBOS" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
placebos | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PLACEBOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Beruhigungsmittel (bromide, depressant, depressants, downer, sedation, sedative, sedatives, suppressant, suppressants, tranquilizer, tranquillizer, tranquillizers). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | acebosplay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"PLACEBOS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pacebo, phadebas, placeblo, placebu, placeebo, placibo, plaeebo, plecebo, Pulacayo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PLACEBOS" (pronounced plusē"bōz) |
| 3 | -b ō z | gombos, hoboes, turbos. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: beclasp, escalop, placebo. | |
-2 letters: aslope, becaps, cables, cobles, copals, places, solace. | |
-3 letters: ables, alecs, aloes, bales, becap, blase, blocs, bolas, boles, cable, calos, capes, capos, claps, clasp, clops, close, coals, coble, colas, coles, copal, copes, copse, laces, lapse, leaps, lobes, lopes, opals, paces, pales, paseo, peals, place, pleas, plebs, poles, psoae, sable, salep. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: placeboes. | |
+3 letters: collapsible, compassable, compatibles, compensable, processable. | |
+4 letters: decomposable, problematics, prosecutable, psychobabble. | |
+5 letters: cerebrospinal, claustrophobe, incompatibles, psychobabbler, psychobabbles. | |
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