adverse effect
Definition
Abnormal, harmful, or undesirable effect on an organism that causes anatomical or functional damage, irreversible physical changes, or increases the susceptibility to other biological, chemical, or environmental stresses. Adverse effects are indicated usually by results such as altered food consumption, altered enzyme levels, changes in body/organ weights, other pathological changes, and higher mortality rates.
adverse effect is in the Material & Occupational Safety subject.
adverse effect appears in the definitions of the following terms:
environmental risk,
maximum tolerated dose,
risk estimation,
acute effect,
critical effect,
risk,
deterministic effect,
environmental impact,
confession and avoidance,
reproductive effect
and
adverse effect appears in the other term: no observable adverse effect level (NOAEL)
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