Usually means: Characteristic increasing likelihood of disease.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. risk factor: Merriam-Webster
  2. risk factor: Collins English Dictionary
  3. risk-factor: Wordnik
  4. risk factor: Dictionary.com
  5. Risk factor (computing), Risk factor (criminology), Risk factor (disambiguation), Risk factor (finance), Risk factor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. risk factor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. risk factor: Wiktionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. risk factor: Legal dictionary
  3. Risk Factor, Risk-factor: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. risk factor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. risk factor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Risk factor: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Risk Factor: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  12. Risk factor: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  13. risk factor: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. RISK FACTOR: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  15. Risk-factor, risk factor: Medical dictionary
  16. Risk factor: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Risk Factor: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (risk factor)

noun:  Something that increases risk or susceptibility.
noun:  (medicine) A variable associated with an increased risk of a medical condition.


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