Precipitating Factors Are Best Defined As

Precipitating factors are best defined as:

A) factors essential to the development of disease, conditions, injuries, disability, and death.
B) factors or conditions allowing or assisting the disease, condition, injury, disability, or death to begin and to be able to run its course of events.
C) factors or conditions already present that produce a susceptibility or disposition in a host to a disease or condition without actually causing it.
D) None of these is correct.