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| It was a subject-oriented adjective that was used to label the
harmful, injurious, unpleasant, or undesirable reactions (or
responses) that a subject manifested (thus, "nocebo reactions"
(or "nocebo responses") as a result administering an inert dummy
drug, where these responses had not been chemically generated,
and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and
expectation that the inert drug would produce harmful,
injurious, unpleasant, or undesirable consequences. In these
cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual harmful,
injurious, unpleasant or undesirable biochemical, physiological,
behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive consequences of the
administration of the inert drug are very real. One severe
example of nocebo effect is someone who dies of fright after
being bitten by a non-poisonous snake. The term "nocebo"Edit The
term nocebo ("I shall harm")