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.
    

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A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

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Über die Prädisposition des Alters für Krebs im Anschluss an einen Fall von Mastdarmcarcinom bei einem 23 jähr. Mann ... / von Heinrich Glasser.

Where is science going? / Max Planck ; with a preface by Albert Einstein ; translated and edited by James Murphy.

The origin of diversity in Albertus Magnus' De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa / by Thérèse Marie Bonin.

Causalità e infinità nella scuola padovana dal 1480 al 1513 / Antonino Poppi.

The perception of causality / A. Michotte ; [translation by T.R. Miles and Elaine Miles].