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sugar pill

noun

: a pill that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no medicine in it

Full Definition of SUGAR PILL

:  a pharmacologically inert pill :  placebo
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First Known Use of SUGAR PILL

1852
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sugar pill

noun

Medical Definition of SUGAR PILL

:  a pharmacologically inert pill :  placebo

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