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What is a side effect?

What is a side effect? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) An unintended consequence of any action in addition to the intended consequence of that action.
  2. (medicine) An adverse effect, an unintended consequence of a drug or therapy; usually not a beneficial effect.
  3. (computing) A change in state caused by a function call (typically "side-effect").
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The side effect is inflammation and recruitment of these specific inflammatory and immune cells that are characteristic of the disease.
Akathisia has been well documented as a common and distressing side effect of antipsychotic drugs and an important cause of poor drug compliance.
As a salutary side effect, reform may also be society's greatest protection against politically motivated violence.
This doesn't exist on its own but is only a side effect of hate for their self-created enemies.
Whilst this may be as a result of his anxiety it equally seems likely that this is a side effect of his anxiolytic drugs.
One side effect of the heightened interest in health issues is that medical studies in specialist publications now reach a wider public.

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