Usually means: Consequences stemming from actions, decisions.
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  1. ramifications: Merriam-Webster
  2. ramifications: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ramifications: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ramifications, ramifications: Wordnik
  5. ramifications: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ramifications: Wiktionary
  7. ramifications: Dictionary.com
  8. ramifications: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ramifications (Ligeti): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. ramifications: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ramification)

noun:  (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
noun:  (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
noun:  (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
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