Side effects vs Adverse effects. Side effects and adverse effects are both experienced by people in the healthcare field. Often the words are interchanged or used instead of the other, but wrongly so. There is ample difference in the meaning of both words.
Also found in: Wikipedia. system unit. An individual card, section of tape, or the like, which is manipulated during operation of the system; class 1 systems have one unit per document; class 2 systems have one unit per vocabulary term or concept. case.
âº A unit is also a small machine or part of a machine that has a particular purpose: the central processing unit of a computer âº A unit is also a piece of furniture or equipment used as part of a set of similar or matching pieces: