Usually means: Secondary effects of primary causes.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiphenomena: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiphenomena: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epiphenomena: Collins English Dictionary
  4. epiphenomena: Vocabulary.com
  5. epiphenomena: Wordnik
  6. epiphenomena: Wiktionary
  7. epiphenomena: Dictionary.com
  8. epiphenomena: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiphenomena: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. epiphenomena: Medical dictionary

(Note: See epiphenomenon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphenomenon)

noun:  An activity, process, or state that is the result of another; a by-product, a consequence.
noun:  (philosophy, psychology) A mental process or state that is an incidental by-product of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.
noun:  (pathology) A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.
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