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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of etiology.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An inquiry into or a theory of the physical causes of any class of phenomena.
  2. n. Specifically, in medicine, an inquiry into or account of the origin or causes of disease, or of a particular kind or case of disease. Sometimes written aitiology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
  2. n. The study of causes or causation.
  3. n. medicine The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
  2. n. The assignment of a cause.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the philosophical study of causation
  2. n. the cause of a disease

Etymologies

  1. From Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiologia), from αἰτία ("cause"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD.”

    Mad-cow Disease

  • “In other words, out of the 1,300 cases now being studied on the programme, several dozen new diseases should soon be identified and their exact aetiology unravelled.”

    The Guardian: In pursuit of diseases that have no name

  • “This ethnography of alleged links between child-rearing practices, rural economic decline and mental illness probably did get the aetiology of schizophrenia in Ireland wrong.”

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  • “And I know a little about Crohn's...enough to know that it does not have an emotional aetiology. *hugs*”

    Baggage

  • “A psychologist I know gives her last lecture of each year on a paper entitled ‘The aetiology and treatment of childhood’.”

    New NICE guidelines on ADHD and Ritalin

  • “[HzH] Well, my personal conviction that there must be ... first of all there must be an infectious aetiology of this type of malignant disease, but secondly also I was in-between always encouraged – in spite of the fact that we didn't find directly this virus – by the fact that I saw how many questions there remained open in the papilloma virus field.”

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  • “I do not think that the aetiology of Autism and the link to the MMR vaccine is too unlikely in this context.”

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  • “Malignant melanoma and lymphoproliferative malignancy: is there a shared aetiology?”

    Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic

  • “Several doctors have told me that illness in general, or at least in numerous common cases, has a profound psychological component in its aetiology, so the idea that all or a great deal of illness is due to the general psychological impact of sin strikes me as quite plausible.”

    Behe challenges Miller

  • “The CMF has a guidance section on its website called Demon Possession and Mental Illness which asks if doctors should 'see demonic influence as being a neglected aetiological factor within a multifactorial model for the aetiology of mental disorder?”

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