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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Etiology \E`ti*ol"o*gy\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]tiologie.] The science of causes. Same as ? tiology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also aetiology, "science of causes or causation," 1550s, from Late Latin aetiologia, from Greek aitiologia "statement of cause," from aitia "cause, responsibility" (from PIE *ai-t-ya-, from root *ai- (1) "to give, allot;" see diet (n.1)) + -logia "a speaking" (see -logy). Related: Etiologic; etiological.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of aetiology English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Etiology (; alternatively aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation, or origination. The word is derived from the Greek , aitiologia, "giving a reason for" (, aitia, "cause"; and , -logia). The word is most commonly used in medical and philosophical theories, where it is used to refer to the study of why things occur, or even the reasons behind the way that things act, and is used in philosophy, physics, psychology, government, geography, spatial analysis, medicine, theology, and biology in reference to the causes of various phenomena.
An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.
Usage examples of "etiology".
Statistics show that insanity is increasing with alarming rapidity everywhere, yet medical experts differ widely as to the causes of mental deterioration, and science is not yet in possession of knowledge of the exact etiology of functional insanity.
Since insanity is chiefly a manifestation of mental or psychological disturbance-a Psychic neurosis-the symptomatology therefore should offer a guidance in ascertaining the etiology, and assist as well in arriving at a solution of the 14 mental pathology.
Spur, in a paralyzing depression of unknown etiology, lying on Tommy D.
Next to that he had written the word etiology followed by a question mark.
It had its beginnings in the final quarter of the last century, and decades of the most painstaking and demanding research were required before the etiology of pneumonia, scarlet fever, meningitis, and the rest could be worked out.
But if Providence does not act through secondary causes in this particular sphere of etiology, then why does Dr.
Formerly there was much theorizing and discussion regarding the etiology and pathology of plica, but since this mysterious affection has been proved to be nothing more than the product of neglect, and the matting due to the inflammatory exudation, excited by innumerable pediculi, agglutinating the hair together, the term is now scarcely mentioned in dermatologic works.
Buchanan describes a case illustrative of the etiology of spontaneous amputation of limbs in utero Nebinger reports a case of abortion, showing commencing amputation of the left thigh from being encircled by the funis.
Long before the rest of the psychiatric community converted, he was preaching the doctrine that psychobiology was the key to the etiology of mental illness and pharmacology was the key to treatment.
Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.
Just as in Munchausen by Proxy, a doctor will examine a child with somatoform disorder and not be able to find any organic etiology for the symptom.
Atmospheric surveys, taxonomy, etiology of local diseases, once they managed to talk enough to the local species to find out what their diseases were-once they figured out how to talk to the species-if the species even wanted toMcCoy rubbed his head.
I twist the attenuated powder between my fingertips, smelling it for clues to its origins, religious etiology commingling with the legend of a Buddhist electrician, the Nikola Tesla of Nepal.