副ふく因いん

noun

secondary cause; subsidiary factor

Technical term used in analysis, medicine, or formal reasoning to refer to a contributing but not primary cause. Not an everyday word.

• この病びょう気きの副ふく因いんとしてストレスが考かんがえられる。

  Stress is considered a secondary cause of this illness.

• 事じ故この主しゅ因いんは整せい備び不ふ良りょうだが、副ふく因いんとして天てん候こうも挙あげられる。

  The primary cause of the accident was poor maintenance, but weather can be cited as a subsidiary factor.