Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to ætiology; connected with or dependent upon the doctrine of efficient or physical causes, as distinguished from teleological or final causes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to ætiology; assigning a cause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
etiological .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the etiology of a disease
- adjective of or relating to the philosophical study of causation
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Examples
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Because it does not influence the substrata of the diseased manifestations, the cells and organs, but only the cause of the disease, I call it aetiological therapy, which comes to approximately the same thing as the therapeutic endeavours which are referred to in other quarters as causal, radical, abortive, etc.
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It is generally accepted by chiros that back pain is multi factorial and can arise from a multitude of aetiological factors just like the medics.
Simon's Choice Jack of Kent 2009
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Incidentally, demon possession 'may also be an aetiological factor in some non-psychiatric conditions' - although there is no mention of which ones.
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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?'
Archive 2009-08-01 TK 2009
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Incidentally, demon possession 'may also be an aetiological factor in some non-psychiatric conditions' - although there is no mention of which ones.
Archive 2009-08-01 TK 2009
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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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According to Israëls, writes Rycroft, Schreber's father "was not as famous and influential as both Schatzman and Freud had assumed, was not such a paragon as Freud had assumed or as vicious as Schatzman had painted him, and neither Freud's nor Schatzman's aetiological theories stand up to critical scrutiny."
Another Soul Murder Schatzman, Morton 1990
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But far from this story being a historical account, it is simply "an aetiological cult-legend intended to shed light on the (at least) annual visit of the Jerusalem church to the tomb in order to honor the risen [exalted] One" (p. 336).
Quo Vadis, Wojtyla? Sheehan, Thomas 1980
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I now come to the problem of examining the measures currently in use to see to what extent they take account of the aetiological factors, as I have just described them.
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It is aetiological therapy in contrast to the symptomatic therapy just described.
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