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causal agent

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meanings of causaland agent


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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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Examples of causal agent


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If the baseball as a whole is also a causalagent, we have too many causal agents.
Regardless of the causalagent, the morphological changes of massive hepatic cell death are similar.
In addition, because risk factors were less directly linked with pathology than the specific causal agent, the relationship between cause and pathology was partially uncoupled.
During the outbreak there was concern that citric acid was a causalagent in the illness.
Apart from hypoglycaemic therapy, alcohol is the other main causalagent because it reduces hepatic glycogen stores and glucose production.
Entamoeba histolytica is the causalagent of amoebiasis.
The linkage of a causalagent and pathology proved irresistibly attractive because that link seemed to place medical science on an entirely objective basis for the first time.
However, what this model implies is that the passage of time is a causalagent; that is, growing older causes the adolescent to use more substances.
If this were the case, attempting to identify the causalagent of a subset of cases in the absence of an appropriate case definition would, almost certainly, result in failure.
The new entity "pest" as a specific, causalagent external to the grapevine plant existed in a conceptual space that was unconnected to the vintners' field of knowledge.
We are working here upon a virus disease, and one in which we have not yet been able to detect the causalagent.
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Despite extensive investigation then, no causalagent was 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 single causalagent.
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Research in this area has been inconclusive; aluminium accumulation may be a consequence of the disease rather than a causalagent.
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It is the causalagent of sorghum downy mildew.
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Currently, the causalagent is thought to be a mycoplasma-like organism.
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