Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. pharmacology A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
Etymologies
- From Latin nocēbō ("I will harm"), first-person singular future active indicative of noceō ("I harm"), by analogy with placebo. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Powerwatch concluded that people who incorrectly identify themselves as electrosensitive may be skewing these sort of studies -- what they call nocebo responses.”
“Poor outcomes from poor expectations led Walter Kennedy, in 1961, to coin the term "the nocebo reaction.”
“This is called the nocebo effect, since it is the placebo's negative counterpart.”
“This effect is known as nocebo, the reverse of placebo.”
“A closer look at what's being called the nocebo effect.”
“… This is the dark side of the placebo effect-called nocebo effect -- meaning knowing a bad thing can make you feel it.”
“But don't knock the placebo effect; it has been demonstrated to not only have countless positive health benefits in unsuspecting patients, it can also produce withdrawal symptoms when discontinued, or, when used in the opposite manner, can produce the "nocebo" effect; that is, cause harm.”
The Huffington Post: Eliezer Sobel: Understanding the Placebo Effect
“Reaching deep into your psyche to program ailments -- an instance of the "nocebo" effect, the flip side of the "placebo effect," ads use the recently demonstrated power of belief and suggestion to condition health outcomes.”
Alison Rose Levy: Do You Have the Right to Choose Your Health Care?
“Call it the power of negative thinking - or, as it's also known, the "nocebo" effect.”
“Stranger still is the placebo's negative corollary, the "nocebo": the word used to describe what happens when a person who believes he has a particular disease, or is given a fake pill he expects to be harmful, develops adverse symptoms.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nocebo’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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Words I wish I didn't know
I'll be listing items from my personal collection, but feel free to add whatever you like--I'm sure it will be helpful to know which things I won't want to know.
every potential l..., ubi pus ibi evacua, suppuration, suppurative chola..., nonsuppurative ch..., warm antibody hem..., subarachnoid hemo..., amortization sche..., tire rotation, thunderclap headache, feeding tube, appraised value and 32 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Words/Phrases that have crossed my path
palanquin, rhapsodical, cacology, sylvan, veranda, lithe, spittoon, aptronym, retronym, purloin, blithe, diaeresis and 134 more...
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Accurst
Curses and spiritual warfare.
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toner's Words
contitute, flump, malice, agentivize, calumniate, deliberator, polder, disintermediating, disfluencies, parameterize, ulterior, nihonjinron and 86 more...
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nova_division's Words
apotheosis, prelapsarian, malachite, oubliette, hypergolic, misfeasance, comestibles, callipygian, facetiae, pediculosis, terpsichorean, schadenfreude and 57 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nocebo.
fbharjo no-ti-cebo bene (mal) or is that nota bene? Well? Aug 4, 2009
chained_bear This is too freaky. Aug 3, 2009
oroboros "...the nocebo phenomenon wherein a patient produces the symptoms of a misdiagnosed disease, even to the degree of dying on the day that the doctor gave as the expected time to live, although the particular disease was not present."
The Abundance Matrix, p. 5 Aug 3, 2009
wytukaze Coined on the model of placebo from the Latin nocēre, "to hurt", (related to, for example, noxious and obnoxious).
“Cannon’s analysis of ‘Voodoo Death’ allows us to think the affect of bioterrorism in terms of what we could call ‘nocebos’, the dark twin of a ‘placebo’ … the fear which issues from the negative statement, or hex, attains a reality more powerful than the actual threat. In contemporary medicine, there is much made of the increased likelihood of succumbing to illness if verbal suggestions of susceptibility are emphasized…�?
Luciana Parisi & Steve Goodman, The Affect of Nanoterror
Mar 19, 2009
reesetee Ah, but that would depend on whom you are asking. ;-) Mar 4, 2008
john Like tobacco, right?
Just kidding. Mar 4, 2008
reesetee A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless (the opposite of placebo). From A.Word.A.Day, 3/4/08. Mar 4, 2008