causal agent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandagent
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causal
adjective
uk/ˈkɔː.zəl/us/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofcausalandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If the baseball as a whole is also acausalagent, we have too many causal agents.
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Regardless of thecausalagent, the morphological changes of massive hepatic cell death are similar.
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In addition, because risk factors were less directly linked with pathology than the specificcausalagent, the relationship between cause and pathology was partially uncoupled.
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During the outbreak there was concern that citric acid was acausalagentin the illness.
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Apart from hypoglycaemic therapy, alcohol is the other maincausalagentbecause it reduces hepatic glycogen stores and glucose production.
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Entamoeba histolytica is thecausalagentof amoebiasis.
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The linkage of acausalagentand pathology proved irresistibly attractive because that link seemed to place medical science on an entirely objective basis for the first time.
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However, what this model implies is that the passage of time is acausalagent; that is, growing older causes the adolescent to use more substances.
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If this were the case, attempting to identify thecausalagentof a subset of cases in the absence of an appropriate case definition would, almost certainly, result in failure.
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The new entity "pest" as a specific,causalagentexternal to the grapevine plant existed in a conceptual space that was unconnected to the vintners' field of knowledge.
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We are working here upon a virus disease, and one in which we have not yet been able to detect thecausalagent.
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Despite extensive investigation then, nocausalagentwas found, and this remains the case.
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A strong association has been made between maternal smoking and childhood overweight/obesity, with nicotine as the singlecausalagent.
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Research in this area has been inconclusive; aluminium accumulation may be a consequence of the disease rather than acausalagent.
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It is thecausalagentof sorghum downy mildew.
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Currently, thecausalagentis thought to be a mycoplasma-like organism.
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