Preferred Name |
Causality |
Synonyms |
Causations |
Definitions |
The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors. |
ID |
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015984 |
altLabel |
Causations Multiple Causations Causality, Multifactorial Factor, Reinforcing Factor, Enabling Multiple Causation Predisposing Factors Causation Factors, Enabling Enabling Factors Causalities Enabling Factor Reinforcing Factor Predisposing Factor Factors, Predisposing Multifactorial Causality Multifactorial Causalities Factors, Reinforcing Factor, Predisposing Causalities, Multifactorial Reinforcing Factors Causation, Multiple Causations, Multiple |
AN |
an epidemiological concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease ( = /etiol); IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol, not /etiol |
cui |
C0032946 C0085978 C0026742 C0014024 C0026756 C1314792 C0035011 |
DC |
1 |
definition |
The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors. |
DX |
19900101 |
HN |
90 |
Inverse of SIB |
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015982 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015897 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D012737 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000076603 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D017584 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D015987 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000367 |
Machine permutation |
90 |
MDA |
19890525 |
MMR |
20080708 |
MN |
N05.715.350.200 N06.850.490.625 |
notation |
D015984 |
prefLabel |
Causality |
TERMUI |
T047447 T047445 T047450 T047449 T047446 T047448 T047444 |
TH |
NLM (1990) |
tui |
T169 T078 T079 |
subClassOf |