specific cause in English

(Medicine) one that produces a specific effect

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1. In a majority of cases , a specific cause is not found .

2. Such patients should be referred to an allergist to determine the specific cause of the allergic reaction and to assess which vaccines should be avoided and for how long.

3. Bronchogenic cysts are masses that develop from abnormal development of the bronchial tree, the network of airways that supplies air to the lungs. Bronchogenic cysts usually form when parts of the bronchial tree abnormally bud off during the fourth to sixth weeks of development in infancy, however, the specific cause is not known.

4. 2.4.2 Humans No significant increase in mortality due to any specific cause was noted in a limited epidemiological investigation in a population of 1099 men exposed to unknown concentrations of tetrachloroethane (probably the 1,1,2,2-isomer), although non-statistically significant increases in mortality due to cancers of the genital organs, leukemia and aleukemia, and other lymphatic cancers were reported (Norman et al., 1981).