causative factor

A bump on your head is not a likely causative factor.

Many of these effects also act as causative factors.

Close scrutiny of such cases invariably established other causative factors.

These results do not support heavy metal poisoning as a causative factor.

The causative factor is not known, but several pathogeneses have been suggested.

"I will not revisit the causative factors of my humiliation."

The second step is treating the causative factors, when determinable.

It has been implicated as a causative factor in both psychological and physical disease.

Therefore proof of dioxins as causative factors has been difficult.

The relative importance of the various identified possible causative factors are also debated.

But actually, it's the causative factor that I find most fascinating."

High levels of debt have long been recognized as a causative factor for recessions.

Determining the actual causative factor behind those symptoms will happen when we have more data."

The physicians said the muscle building hormones "emerge as a likely causative factor in both cases."

If the causative factor persists, tissue will become more fibrous over time.

Smith estimated that patriarchal beliefs were a causative factor for only 20% of wife abuse.

Pulmonary immaturity has also been proposed as a causative factor.

In the meantime, investigate possible causative factors with him will be a good starting point for helping alleviate your son's pain.

Studies on organisms concerned as causative factors in botulism.

Both fish and pesticides are causative factors in the reduction of R. muscosa numbers.

If we could only take one of those mutants apart, find out what causative factors are responsible for their regeneration.

The causative factors have not yet been elucidated by research, so we do not know what the goals are.

If this was the only causative factor, there would be little that we could do about it, but there is another side to the coin.

The condition tends to come and go, depending upon exposures to triggers or causative factors.

A sporadic defect in the embryonic development has been suggested to be a causative factor.