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the causative
noun
An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
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"I wasn't thinking this would be the causative molecule until I talked to Vikas," he said.
Coxsackievirus A6 was the causative agent.
However, the causative link between exposure and behaviour is sufficiently well established that it already shapes our law on pornography.
The causative agent, Rickettsia slovaca, is transmitted by Dermacentor ticks.
But high initial death rates often fall as officials find that the causative microbe also causes mild, even symptomless cases.
"I will not revisit the causative factors of my humiliation".
The answer is ultimately down to the insidious nature of the causative bacteria.
I have concluded that it is innate motivation that is the causative factor.
It is also not a standalone treatment, as the causative factors do need to be addressed.
"The first news was shocking: the causative agent was indeed the Ebola virus".
After Legionnaire's disease struck in Philadelphia in 1976, it took six months before discovery of the causative bacterium, Legionella pneumophila.
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