causative factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausativeandfactor
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causative
adjective
uk/ˈkɔː.zə.tɪv/us/ˈkɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
acting as the cause ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofcausativeandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is therefore possible that some other underlying correlated factor might be thecausativefactor.
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The selective neuronal injury secondary to release of neurotransmitters may be acausativefactorin the development of cognitive and neurologic dysfunction following bypass.
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This rules out lack of exposure to accents as acausativefactor, since exposure can be expected to increase with age.
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Indeed, smoking is acausativefactorfor low birth weight.
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The authors also suggest that researchers can only speculate on how exactly depression or bereavement might be acausativefactoror facilitator of cancer.
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Abnormally high rainfall is acausativefactorfor epidemics in lowlands and fringe areas bordering lowlands.
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This would appear to rule out the possibility of parasite-induced host mortality as thecausativefactor, since the variance in this case would have had to decline disproportionately.
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The real effort is directed, in such a physical trouble, to discover thecausativefactorand to combat it through a vaccine.
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We know of no survey where research has established poor driver vision as a systematiccausativefactorin accidents.
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The problem is that we do not consider an essentialcausativefactor.
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The main conditions in which cigarette smoking is a significantcausativefactorare lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and coronary heart disease, especially in middle-aged people.
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The police certainly believe with good evidence that drugs can be acausativefactorin many other crimes that do not show up as directly drug related.
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The second maincausativefactoris speed.
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Most often endothelial dysfunction iscausativefactorin diabetic microangiopathy and macroangiopathy.
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Treatment of reversible pulpitis is by removing or correcting thecausativefactor.
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High levels of debt have long been recognized as acausativefactorfor recessions.
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A sporadic defect in the embryonic development has been suggested to be acausativefactor.
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Although the train was travelling above the authorised speed limit, it is unclear whether this was acausativefactorin the accident.
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Thiscausativefactoris through the disturbance that has been reported for males, females, adults, children, and dogs.
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Thecausativefactoris not known, but several pathogeneses have been suggested.
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