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ˈside-effect
[side n.1 24 d.]
1. gen. A subsidiary consequence of an action, occurrence, or state of affairs; an unintended secondary result.
1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 435 The view that all psychical life is a side-effect of the physical process of formation. 1933E. Blunden Mind's Eye (1934) i. 59 Here the side-effects of the quarrels south of the Canal..were felt and paid for in some casualties. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. xi. 336 The problem is, moreover, made more difficult still by the second of the potentially unfortunate side-effects of reformative penal treatment. 1974‘D. Craig’ Whose Little Girl are You? ii. 23 A side effect of sobriety he had found to be deadly fatigue.
2. Med. An effect (usu. for the worse) of a drug or other chemical other than that for which it is administered; usu. pl.
1939Wright & Montag Textbk. Materia Med. Pharmacol. & Therapeutics x. 112 The effects which are not desired in any particular case are referred to as ‘side effects’ or ‘side actions’ and, in some instances, these may be so powerful as to limit seriously the therapeutic usefulness of the drug. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. June 384 A new alkaloid, built to the same molecular pattern, but with slight modifications, has been synthesised; it is equally anti-malarial but its side-effects are less toxic. 1961Lancet 19 Aug. 390/1 The commonest complication of anticoagulant therapy is hæmorrhage. Numerous reports describe the frequency and nature of this side-effect. 1978E. Hartmann Sleeping Pill ii. 16 In the usual doses, paraldehyde does not produce severe side effects. |