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Factor
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An event, circumstance, influence, or element that plays a part in bringing about a result.

A factor in a case contributes to its causation or outcome. In the area of Negligence law, the factors, or chain of causation, are important in determining whether liability ensues from a particular action done by the defendant.


factor n. 1) a salesman who sells in his/her own name on behalf of others, taking a commission for services. 2) something that contributes to the result.



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One of the company's manufacturing plants in Thousand Oaks also received Food and Drug Administration approval to produce Factor VIII, Baxter's flagship hemophilia product.
Periodic blood tests over the next year revealed that all three patients in the high-dose group and one in the low-dose group sometimes had factor VIII concentrations that the researchers interpreted as higher than those shown at the start of the study.
There, Hyland Immuno makes its recombinant Factor VIII, a genetically engineered drug that treats people with the most common from of hemophilias and is one of the company's best sellers, generating $500 million in sales last year.
 
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