"adverse effect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: adverse effects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} adverse effect (plural adverse effects)
  1. (sciences) A side effect with negative (deleterious) consequences rather than positive (beneficial) ones; especially, such an effect in pharmacology. Wikipedia link: adverse effect Categories (topical): Sciences Translations: haittavaikutus (Finnish), sivuvaikutus (Finnish), unerwünschte Wirkung [feminine] (German), unerwünschte Arzneimittelwirkung (note: only for pharmaca) [feminine] (German), skutek uboczny [masculine] (Polish), вре́дный побо́чный эффе́кт (vrédnyj pobóčnyj effékt) [masculine] (Russian), tác dụng có hại (Vietnamese)

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