这个词是什么意思？
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.
中文名称索引；定义为 MeSH 英文原文，尚未逐条译审。MESH:D015984 · MeSH 2026。
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