ramification

Noun

• an arrangement of branching parts

• a development that complicates a situation
  • the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications
    

• a part of a forked or branching shape
  • he broke off one of the branches
    

• the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  complication , branch , leg , branching , fork , forking