side effect

Noun
  1. A secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy (synset 114335404)
    "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug"
    is a type of: effect - a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
    subtypes: black tongue, furry tongue, hairy tongue - a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
  2. Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect (synset 111437501)
    "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
    is a type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
    same as: fallout

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