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cause
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cause
1. 
a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit
b. the lawsuit itself
2. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause)


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As for the secondary cause, some like George Kerevan, associate editor of the Scotsman newspaper, point to deforestation and equatorial atmospheric drying caused by changes in wind and ocean current patterns.
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is an important opportunistic infection commonly seen in people with a depressed immune system from a known primary or secondary cause, for example, a congenital immunodeficiency disorder (such as HIV) or chemotherapy.
Some of the historic features that suggest a possible secondary cause of headache include the "first" or "worst" headache; the new onset of headaches over the age of 40 years; focal neurologic findings; a history of head trauma; and signs of infection.
 
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