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side effect

DEFINITIONS OF: side effect

1

n a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy

“severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug”
Types:
black tongue, furry tongue, hairy tongue
a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
Type of:
effect
a symptom caused by an illness or a drug

n any adverse and unwanted secondary effect

Synonyms:
fallout
Type of:
consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
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