Causative agent

Synonyms for "causative agent" (13 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Adjective(3 words)

causalcausative formcause

Strong matches (4)

Adjective(3 words)

causing germgrammatical form

Noun(1 words)

disease agent

Related words (6)

Adjective(6 words)

infectious agentpathogen pathogenic stimulus toxic trigger

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

9 entries

biological agentbiological factorcausal adjectivecausal factorcause determinantdisease factorfactorgrammatical concept

More specific

13 entries

bacterium catalystcausative constructioncausative verbfungus initiator parasite pathogen precipitant stimulus toxin trigger virus

Collocations

11 entries

biological agentcausative constructioncausative factorcausative mechanismcausative relationshipcausative verbdisease agentenvironmental factorinfectious agentpathogenic agenttoxic agent

Inflections

3 entries

causative agentsmore causativemost causative

Derivations

5 entries

causal causality causation causative causatively

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