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Cause-specific mortality
The factor responsible for death.
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Causative factors
In epidemiology, etiological factors. The factors, either separately or collectively with others, responsible for the onset of disease or some other health problem.
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Causal modeling
Structural modeling.
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Causal inference
In research, a conclusion that indicates that one variable causes another.
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Causal diagram
In sociology, a path diagram.
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Causal-comparative studies
After-the-fact natural experiments.
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Causal chain
The sequence of events that results in an effect.
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Cauliflower ear
A deformed, painful ear caused by repeated friction and trauma to the ear. The term applied to the distortion of the external ear produced by repeated injury in sport. Initially it is due to a haematoma in the auricle. To prevent deformity the blood should be drawn off from this haematoma as soon as possible,…
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Caul
An obsolete term used for the sac that encloses the baby before birth and that usually ruptures at the time of delivery. If does not rupture, it is said that the baby was born. A membrane which sometimes covers a baby’s head at birth. Intact amniotic sac surrounding the fetus at birth that must be…
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Caudetenucleus
The mass of gray matter in the corpus striatum of the brain forming part of the floor of the lateral ventricle and separated from the lenticular nucleus by the internal capsule.
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