What's the difference between placebo and vespers?

Placebo


Definition:

  • (n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • (n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventy patients were randomised to Fm 40 mg at night and Rn placebo and 62 to Rn 300 mg at night and Fm placebo.
  • (2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (4) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
  • (5) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
  • (6) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
  • (7) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (8) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (9) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
  • (10) Seventy-six patients with established atherosclerotic disease were treated daily with either 250 micrograms of chromium orally as chromium chloride or a placebo for a period of 7 to 16 months (mean, 11.1 months).
  • (11) hGRF but not placebo caused significant elevations of plasma growth hormone levels in all subjects.
  • (12) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
  • (13) Compared with placebo, carvedilol significantly reduced both resting heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) at rest.
  • (14) Twenty-one patients received 4.5 mg. per kilogram of intramuscular lidocaine and 25 patients received placebo in the deltoid muscle within 14 hours of the onset of symptoms.
  • (15) At the end of the baseline period, supine diastolic blood pressure (SuDBP) was 105-140 mm Hg on hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) 25 mg once daily and placebo t.i.d.
  • (16) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
  • (17) Each subject received, on 2 separate days 1 week apart, an intravenous injection of either placebo or urapidil (25 or, if necessary, 50 mg).
  • (18) Both SUC and CIM were superior to placebo (p less than .001).
  • (19) In the placebo group of 14 patients CNV-amplitudes even decreased after ten Infusions with multi-vitamins alone.
  • (20) Clinical and inflammatory activity improved in both groups, but consistently more so in the auranofin group, in spite of the greater consumption of local steroids and NSAIDs in the placebo group.

Vespers


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.
  • (n.) The evening song or service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lumbosacral and associated leg pain and paresthesias arousing patients from a sound sleep, or Vesper's curse, has been previously reported.
  • (2) Why monteverdi wrote the vespers of the holy virgin when he wrote them, how the reformation affected music, how the first and second world war affected both classical music and art music and jazz and popular music - it’s an incredible project.” Fred Deakin for Modulations Photograph: Supplied Jones is also looking forward to the Modulations program, curated by Modular’s Steve Pavlovic and headlined by the Pet Shop Boys.
  • (3) The motor equivalent of Vesper's curse was evaluated by electromography, evoked potentials, CAT scan, and myelography.
  • (4) On the contrary, laboratory mice and cricetids failed to show Hantavirus infection while the wild vesper mouse Calomys musculinus (the main Junin virus reservoir) showed a prevalence of 23.5%.
  • (5) Hume's first act was to lead the monks of Ampleforth to Westminster Abbey to sing vespers there for the first time since the Reformation.
  • (6) Cameron was likened to a Vesper Martini, a Mercedes, Dick Dastardly and Hugh Grant.
  • (7) A mycobacterial antigens circadian variation in correlation with vesperal fever in tuberculous patients was not revealed.
  • (8) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
  • (9) While St John Paul II and Benedict XVI celebrated mass in Yankee stadium during their New York visits, Francis will celebrate mass for a slightly smaller crowd in Madison Square Garden, and preside over a vespers service at the newly spruced-up St Patrick’s Cathedral.
  • (10) With apologies to Vesper Lynd , if the only thing left of The Living Daylights was Maryam d'Abo's smile and the taut early sequence that culminates with Timothy Dalton's 007 deliberately missing a shot at cellist turned sniper Kara Milovy , it would still be my favourite Bond film.
  • (11) 3) non offset venous insufficiency with frequent, if not continuous, vesperal edema.
  • (12) "Vesperal" urinary cortisol measured on a collected urine sample between 20 h and 24 h was higher in pregnant women since the beginning of pregnancy as compared to that of non pregnant women.
  • (13) A 23-year-old male Pondichery native consulted for vesperal dispnoea.

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