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What is the noun for side effects?

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side effect
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “Deprivation, that feeling of being denied food, is a terrible side effect of dieting.”
      “This doesn't exist on its own but is only a side effect of hate for their self-created enemies.”
      “A common side effect is headache, which usually responds to aspirin or acetaminophen and tends to improve with continued use.”
side-effect
  1. Alternative spelling of side effect
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One side-effect of this it is rather more complicated to write a virus in Java than it is to write a virus in C or in assembly language.”
      “This equipment is very safe for the users, as it will not cause any side-effect and bad reactions.”
      “One potential side-effect is that many, many, many people will be disenfranchised if this proposal goes through.”
side effects
  1. plural of side effect
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For people wasting away from the side effects of chemotherapy, this could be a small bit of very good news, indeed.”
      “Long-term use may result in side effects such as acidity, gastritis and even kidney failure.”
      “Some immunotherapy agents have serious side effects that can cause breathing difficulties and heart failure.”
side-effects
  1. plural of side-effect
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Or should you bother, if some of the preventatives have potentially alarming side-effects?”
      “Psychiatrists are experienced in prescribing the different types of antidepressant medication, and in spotting their side-effects.”
      “The sexually deprived people showed a great many more side-effects of all kinds than did the non-deprived people.”
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