Side effect — can mean:* Adverse drug reaction, an unintended consequence specifically arising from drug therapy * Therapeutic effect, an unintended but desirable consequence of any kind of medical treatment * Adverse effect (medicine), an unintended, and… … Wikipedia
side-effect — side effects also side effect 1) N COUNT: usu pl The side effects of a drug are the effects, usually bad ones, that the drug has on you in addition to its function of curing illness or pain. The treatment has a whole host of extremely unpleasant… … English dictionary
side effect — side ef.fect n 1.) an effect that a drug has on your body in addition to curing pain or illness harmful/serious/adverse etc side effect ▪ a natural remedy with no harmful side effects side effect of ▪ the side effects of the medication 2.) an… … Dictionary of contemporary English
side effect — 1884, from SIDE (Cf. side) (adj.) + EFFECT (Cf. effect) (n.). Medical use, with reference to medicines, is recorded from 1939 … Etymology dictionary
side effect — side ef,fect noun count * 1. ) an effect of a medicine that is not intended and could be unpleasant: The treatment has no significant side effects. side effect of: the possible serious side effects of this drug 2. ) any additional result that you … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
side effect — side′ effect n. an often adverse effect, as of a drug, that is secondary to the primary effect Also called side′ reac tion. Etymology: 1880–85 … From formal English to slang
side effect — ► NOUN ▪ a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug or medical treatment … English terms dictionary
Side Effect — [engl.], Nebenwirkung … Universal-Lexikon
side effect — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ common ▪ possible, potential ▪ adverse, bad, dangerous, debilitating, deleterious (esp. AmE) … Collocations dictionary
side effect — A result of drug or other therapy in addition to or in extension of the desired therapeutic effect; usually but not necessarily, connoting an undesirable effect. Although technically the therapeutic effect carried beyond the desired limit ( e.g … Medical dictionary
