Usually means: Negative outcome from a cause.
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  1. adverse effect: Wiktionary
  2. Adverse effect (medicine), Adverse effect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Adverse effect: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. adverse effect: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Adverse effect (medicine), adverse effect: Medical dictionary
  10. Adverse effect: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (adverse effect)

noun:  (sciences) A side effect with negative (deleterious) consequences rather than positive (beneficial) ones; especially, such an effect in pharmacology.

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