Definitions for "Health Effect"
The result of exposure to substances (such as radiation) that cause any harm to a person's health. It includes diseases, cancers, birth defects, genetic effects and death.
a biological effect that produces a consequence which is outside the body's normal range of physiological compensation and is thus detrimental to the health or wellbeing of the person
a biological effect which may endanger the normal working of an organism in that it goes beyond the framework of the 'physiological' responses to the action of the external agent
A deviation in the normal function of the human body.
A change in body function or the structures of cells that can lead to disease or health problems.