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side effects

noun as in adverse or unwanted secondary effect

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Human trials of the Ebola vaccine have been temporarily shut down due to adverse side effects.

For the individual patient, there is the potential for side effects or adverse reactions.

But drugs have potentially devastating side effects, and Mengnan developed tuberculosis (TB), an infection that can be deadly.

Q: So there's no side effects like uncontrollable diarrhea or bleeding profusely through your eyes?

Q: What were some of the possible side effects the doctors warned you about?

It's a tight beam design that should prevent overriding of the main signal by any random side effects.

This was quite an invention and in addition to its useful aspects, it produced some rather unusual, even magical side-effects.

On the day of the take-off there were a number of curious side-effects from the completion of the Space Platform.

How do you know you're not creating side-effects, doing irreparable long-range damage?

They are merely normal side-effects of the bodily disease, accentuated perhaps by a suggestible temperament.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to side effect, such as: aftereffect, reaction, aftermath, aftertaste, by-product, and carry over.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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