Excessive age of the toilets was implicated as a causative factor.
False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object.
In addition, samples containing granulomatous lesions from patients with acute disease should be most likely to contain a causative pathogen.
In the next section we will also discuss the loss of a morphological rule that created causative verbs from adjectives.
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants and in other animals.
No simple causative relationship between industrialisation and the organisation of sexuality is suggested.
Regardless of the causative agent, the tremors and twitches experienced by some users of caffeine are usually harmless.
The causative organism, like that responsible for many cases of non-specific infection, is a member of the chlamydia group.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►agent
· Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants and in other animals.· Regardless of the causative agent, the tremors and twitches experienced by some users of caffeine are usually harmless.· The bacteria which cause periodontitis have been proposed as possible causative agents.
acting as the cause of something: Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases.