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.
International System of Units also International System. n. A complete, coherent system of units used for scientific work, in which the fundamental quantities are length, time, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, amount of substance, and mass. The International System of Units unit of length is the meter; the unit of time is the second.