causality - CISMeF

Preferred Label : causality;

MeSH 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.;

MeSH synonym : causalities;

MeSH hyponym : causation; enabling factors; multiple causation; predisposing factors; multifactorial causality; reinforcing factors; Causalities, Multifactorial; Causality, Multifactorial; Multifactorial Causalities; Causation, Multiple; Causations, Multiple; Multiple Causations; Factor, Reinforcing; Factors, Reinforcing; Reinforcing Factor; Causations; Enabling Factor; Factor, Enabling; Factors, Enabling; Factor, Predisposing; Factors, Predisposing; Predisposing Factor;

MeSH annotation : an epidemiol concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease ( /etiol); IM GEN only; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM), not /etiol; no qualif; specify geog if pertinent; an epidemiological concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease ( /etiol); IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol, not /etiol;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality;

Details

Origin ID

D015984;

UMLS CUI

C1314792;

Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Causality [NCIt concept]
Record concept(s)
- causality [MeSH concept]
- causation [MeSH concept]
- enabling factors [MeSH concept]
- multifactorial causality [MeSH concept]
- multiple causation [MeSH concept]
- predisposing factors [MeSH concept]
- reinforcing factors [MeSH concept]
See also
- Mediation Analysis [MeSH Descriptor]
- etiology [MeSH Qualifier]
Semantic type(s)
- Functional Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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