Sentence examples for got a dummy from inspiring English sources

One-third of the patients got a high dose, 45 million international units of Betaseron every other day; a third got a low dose, 9 million units, and a third got a dummy medication.

He turned out to be a 29-year-old professional special-effects maker: "I've got a dummy dead body in my kitchen at the moment," he told me cheerfully.

One effort to mute the placebo effect in drug trials involves using a "washout period" during which all subjects get a dummy pill for up to two weeks.

Generally, scientific studies account for the placebo effect by comparing a group of participants who receive an active treatment with another group who get a dummy treatment (that is, a placebo).

Scientists hope to recruit 10,000 people to be given the GSK vaccine, 10,000 to receive the Merck jab and a further 10,000 to get a dummy, placebo vaccine.

During the winter that began in 1996, half the patients were given 0.125 milligrams of melatonin at 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. and the other half got a look-alike dummy medication.

Whatever the connection to his larger tapestry, master troller Q got a bunch of dummies to watch a bad three-hour movie searching for clues and, for that, I doff my cap.

A matching number will get a placebo, dummy vaccine.

He added: "We've got a BBB of C dummy, which is what the board wanted, and we've got Bill and Ben the flower pot men sat next to him".

No honorable researcher who thinks a patient might be suicidal, for instance, is going to sign him up for a study where he may well be getting only a dummy pill.

Half got a single dose of doxycycline, taken in the form of two capsules, and the others got two dummy capsules.