nocebo

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noun nocebo an inactive substance or a real medication that produces unpleasant or worsening symptoms in a patient or research participant because the person expects negative effects. 1
noun nocebo a negative symptom experienced by a person with such expectations. 1
noun nocebo (pharmacology) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive. 1

before 1960

One of the 3% newest English words

1960-65; Latin nocēbō I shall be harmful; patterned after placebo

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