a pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient of being given a prescription than for any physiological effect
(给病人提供心理作用的)安慰剂。
a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs
(用于检测新药的)无效对照剂。
〈喻〉 安慰措施;宽慰措施。
"late 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘I shall be acceptable or pleasing', from