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CAUSATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Producing an effect
Example:
poverty as a causative factor in crime
Classified under:
Similar:
abortifacient (causing abortion)
activating; actuating (causing motion or action or change)
anorectic; anorexigenic (causing loss of appetite)
causal (involving or constituting a cause; causing)
conducive; contributing; contributive; contributory; tributary (tending to bring about; being partly responsible for)
errhine (causing nasal discharge)
fast ((of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time)
inducive; inductive (inducing or influencing; leading on)
motivating; motivative; motive (impelling to action)
motive; motor (causing or able to cause motion)
precipitating (bringing on suddenly or abruptly)
responsible; responsible for (being the agent or cause)
sternutative; sternutatory (causing sneezing)
Antonym:
noncausative (not causative)
Derivation:
cause (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)
cause (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)
Context examples:
It is the causative agent of tuberculosis in voles.
(Mycobacterium microti, NCI Thesaurus)
Acute infection results from minor trauma to the fingertip and Staphylococcus aureus is usually the causative agent.
(Paronychia, NCI Thesaurus)
A parvovirus that is the causative agent of Fifth disease.
(Parvovirus B19, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of parasitic protozoans that includes the causative agent of malaria.
(Plasmodium, NCI Thesaurus)
The involvement of Parkin and alpha-synuclein mutations in genetic forms of Parkinson's suggests that failure of ubiquitination and protein degradation may be causative in other forms of Parkinson's.
(Parkinson's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
N. nova is found in the soil and is a causative agent of nocardiosis.
(Nocardia nova, NCI Thesaurus)
N. meningitidis, known commonly as meningococcus, is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, but is also associated with other human infections, but can be commensal in the oropharynx and nasopharynx of carriers.
(Neisseria meningitidis, NCI Thesaurus)
N. brasiliensis is naturally found in soil and is one of the main causative agents of nocardiosis.
(Nocardia brasiliensis, NCI Thesaurus)
N. farcinica is found in soil and is a causative agent of nocardiosis.
(Nocardia farcinica, NCI Thesaurus)
D. congolensis is pathogenic, being the causative agent of Dermatophilosis, also called Mud fever and Rainscald.
(Dermatophilus congolensis, NCI Thesaurus)
