PLACEBO
\pləsˈiːbə͡ʊ], \pləsˈiːbəʊ], \p_l_ə_s_ˈiː_b_əʊ]\
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By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A medicine, prescribed rather to satisfy the patient than with any expectation of its effecting a cure.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.