The phrase "a passive consequence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an outcome or result that occurs without active involvement or direct influence from a subject.
Example: "The increase in pollution levels is a passive consequence of industrial growth in the region."
Alternatives: "an indirect result of" or "a byproduct of".
Studies suggest that arm swing is not merely a passive consequence of trunk rotation during walking, but an active component of gait.
Previously, vascular calcification was regarded as a passive consequence of degenerative diseases, but recent studies have demonstrated that as an active process, vascular calcification shares several features of bone formation5.
Taking into account the contrast between the intra-specific patterns and the between-species differences, the relative widening of the anterior fossa can be interpreted as a definite evolutionary character instead of a passive consequence of brain size increase.
These findings provide an additional, perhaps decisive, argument in a dispute as to whether LPS-induced hypothermia is a passive consequence of peripheral vasodilation and uncontrolled heat loss or, alternatively, whether it is a brain-mediated response.
Nuclear accumulation of PINCH1 is unlikely a passive consequence of an increased overall level of its protein, since TGF-β1 also promotes nuclear translocation of PINCH1 after a short incubation (1 3 h) (Figure 3A) when significant PINCH1 induction was not evident (Figure 1B).
(4) The nose and tail of pcd mice oscillate as a passive consequence of forward hindlimb motion.
However, it is not clear whether the infiltration of CD4+ T-lymphocytes within the tumour is a sign of an active immune response or whether it is a more passive consequence of cytokine excretion from the tumour that attracts T lymphocytes.
Alternatively, it may reflect a more passive consequence of increased cytokine excretion from high-grade proliferating tumours that attracts macrophages and T lymphocytes and increases microvessel density.
Junction shrinking does not appear to be a direct, passive consequence of actomyosin cable contraction because wound edge advancement was relatively smooth compared with the ratchet-like fluctuations in junction size (Fig. 2D′′).
Tissue inflammation in lymphedema may reflect either an active or passive consequence of impaired immune traffic.We studied an experimental model of acute post-surgical lymphedema in the tails of female hairless, immunocompetent SKH-1 mice.
Finally, the large, oscillatory nose and tail movements observed in pcd were not just random, but were successfully modeled as a failure to predict and compensate for the passive consequences of forward motion of the hind limbs.
