aetiology
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See also: ætiology
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Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiología), from αἰτία (aitía, “cause”). By surface analysis, aetio- + -logy; Doublet of aetiologia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /iː.tɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /i.tiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun[edit]
aetiology (countable and uncountable, plural aetiologies)
- The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
- 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:
- I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie].
- The study of causes or causation.
- (medicine, uncountable) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
- (medicine, countable) A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
Usage notes[edit]
- Not to be confused with etymology.
- See also pathology § Usage notes.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
study of causes or origins
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origins of a disease
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See also[edit]
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