| NOUN | state | side effect | a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy |
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| phenomenon | side effect, fallout | any adverse and unwanted secondary effect |
| Meaning | A secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy. | |
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| Example | "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug" | |
| Narrower | hairy tongue, furry tongue, black tongue | A benign side effect of some antibiotics |
| Broader | effect | A symptom caused by an illness or a drug |
| Spanish | efecto secundario | |
| Catalan | efecte secundari | |
| Meaning | Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect. | |
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| Synonym | fallout | |
| Broader | consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot | A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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