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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy;
- Example: "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug"

2. any adverse and unwanted secondary effect;
- Example: "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
[syn: side effect, fallout]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

side effect
    n 1: a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or
         therapy; "severe headaches are one of the side effects of
         the drug"
    2: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to
       contain the fallout from the accounting scandal" [syn: side
       effect, fallout]