CAUSALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causality mean? 

• CAUSALITY (noun)
  The noun CAUSALITY has 1 sense:

1. the relation between causes and effects

  Familiarity information: CAUSALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUSALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation between causes and effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("causality" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Derivation:

causal (involving or constituting a cause; causing)

 Context examples 

Despite the epidemiological link between enterovirus circulation and AFM cases, evidence of direct causality has not been found.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

The etiology can be genetic or environmental, or a combination of both; treatment is based on severity and causality.

(Congenital Hypothyroidism, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): Arterial puncture, sphygmomanometry (for blood pressure measurement)Global introspection, algorithm, bayesian (for Adverse Event causality)Estrogen Receptor Assay, Progesterone Receptor Assay, p53 Assay (for clinical result assay)

(Performed Observation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

EXAMPLE(S): Arterial puncture, sphygmomanometry (for blood pressure measurement) Global introspection, algorithm, Bayesian (for Adverse Event causality)Estrogen Receptor Assay, Progesterone Receptor Assay, p53 Assay (for clinical result assay)

(Defined Observation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

According to WHO causality assessment criteria of suspected adverse reactions it is applicable to clinical event, including laboratory test abnormality, reported as an adverse reaction, about which more data is essential for a proper assessment or the additional data are under examination.

(Conditionally Related to Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

According to WHO causality assessment criteria of suspected adverse reactions it is applicable to a clinical event, including laboratory test abnormality, occurring in a plausible time relationship to medical intervention, and which cannot be explained by concurrent disease or other interventions.

(Definitely Related to Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)