causative

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Although the researchers noted that the association could represent uncontrolled patient characteristics or environmental factors rather than being causative, they called it encouraging that multivariable adjustment had little effect and that the association appeared within all subgroups.

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  1. adjective Functioning as an agent or cause.
  2. adjective Expressing causation. Used of a verb or verbal affix.

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  • Or ž alternatively and perhaps better ž we may regard his book as a non-causative investigation into the functional relationship which determines what level of real wages will correspond to any given level of employment. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • Taylorella equigenitalis, the causative organism for CEM, according to Rusty Ford, equine programs manager in the office of Kentucky State Veterinarian Robert Stout, DVM. —  TheHorse.com News
  • The causative organism of CEM, Taylorella equigenitalis, was detected Dec. 10, by veterinary pathologists at the University of Kentucky in a culture from a Quarter Horse stallion. —  TheHorse.com News
  • It is for this reason that a state of awareness can never apprehend the eternality of the moment, for awareness is designed to react, and, as such, it cannot expressly function as a causative agent of Universal Mind. —  Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
  • Although the researchers noted that the association could represent uncontrolled patient characteristics or environmental factors rather than being causative, they called it encouraging that multivariable adjustment had little effect and that the association appeared within all subgroups. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
 

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  1. = French causatif = Spanish Portuguese Italian causativo, from Latin causativus, causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative, from causa, cause: see cause, n.
 

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