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What does epiphenomenon mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word epiphenomenon? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.
  2. (philosophy) A mental state or process that is an incidental byproduct of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.
  3. Any state, process, or other activity that is the result of another.
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They are an epiphenomenon of certain projects, of certain efforts to maintain or gain positions or status.
So chaos is an epiphenomenon, one that often goes hand-in-hand with complexity but does not necessarily follow from it in all cases.
Thus, whether increased homocysteine is an epiphenomenon or is directly responsible for adverse cardiovascular effects remains an open question.
Mr Kelly suggests his real interest is not the author's life but his afterlife, not the phenomenon itself, as it were, but the epiphenomenon.
During sepsis, we are learning that immune-endocrine crosstalk is not an epiphenomenon but is critical to the organism's capacity to cope with severe stress.
Others see crying as a so-called epiphenomenon, a secondary event that serves no real function.

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