plural of common cause

plural of first cause

The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the deceased's death certificate.

plural of cause of death

Causation; causality; the process whereby causes lead to effects.

(idiomatic) An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.

(transitive) The action of identifying the cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest. To root cause something's root cause does not necessarily imply the use of root cause analysis (RCA).

(law) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

(intransitive) To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.

(medicine) A cause for an effect in a system that is not a constituent of that system, especially causes of personal health problems or death, such as poison, weapon wounds, or accident.