placebo
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(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
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an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drugtype of:medicamento, medicina(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
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