epiphenomena

/หŒษ›p.ษ™.fษ™หˆnษ’m.ษ™หŒnษ™/

IPA: /IH0 P IH1 F AH0 N AA1 M AH0 N AH0/

noun
  1. 1

    A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.

  2. 2

    A mental state or process that is an incidental byproduct of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.

  3. 3

    Any state, process, or other activity that is the result of another, a consequence.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epiphenomena, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epiphenomenon