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Side effects

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symptomsnouna 1974 British psychological horror film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, and Lorna Heilbron.
adverse effectnoun(sciences) A side effect with negative (deleterious) consequences rather than positive (beneficial) ones; especially, such an effect in pharmacology.
adverse reaction
complicationsnounThe state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
medicationsnounA medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
toxicitiesnoun
symtomsnoun
illnessesnoun(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
contraindicationsnoun(medicine) A factor or symptom which makes a certain treatment inadvisable, generally or individually.
drawbacksnounA disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
ailmentsnounSomething which ails one; a disease; sickness.
consequencesnounAn old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.
downsidesnounA disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
medicationnounA medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
withdrawal symptomnoun(medicine, especially in plural) Any of a wide range of symptoms associated with the discontinuance of a drug by an addicted individual, or the medically controlled discontinuance by a patient of a prescribed drug.
sequelaenoun(medicine) Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
pharmacological(pharmacology) Of or having to do with pharmacology.
pharmacologic(pharmacology) Relating to pharmacology
neurotoxicitynounThe state or property of being neurotoxic.
symptomnoun(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.

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