Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
ætiological , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; ætiological.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
etiology .
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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So compelling are these findings that Dr. Itzhaki has concluded, Our present data suggest that this virus is a major cause of amyloid plaques and hence probably a significant etiological factor in Alzheimer's disease.
David Perlmutter, M.D.: Link Found Between Alzheimer's And Herpes M.D. David Perlmutter 2011
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Without antiviral drugs or a real understanding of the infectious agent (scientists argued for years over whether bacillus influenzae was the etiological agent of the 1918 flu pandemic, until a "filterable virus" was eventually determined to be the cause), patients were basically on their own against the disease, and the only useful response was a public health one.
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Shrouded in etiological puzzles, the place continues to pique the minds of scholars and travel show hosts.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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Indeed, it is not at all clear whether there may in fact be an etiological link between fibromyalgia and obesity.
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Without antiviral drugs or a real understanding of the infectious agent (scientists argued for years over whether bacillus influenzae was the etiological agent of the 1918 flu pandemic, until a "filterable virus" was eventually determined to be the cause), patients were basically on their own against the disease, and the only useful response was a public health one.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The collective efforts by researchers in our group and others, and by clinicians, brought together sufficient data to convince the scientific community and the relevant authorities that LAV (later to be named human immunodeficiency virus, HIV) was the etiological agent of AIDS.
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About the origin of the story, Kugel writes that it "looks like an etiological narrative, that is, the recounting of some incident from the distant past that serves to explain the way things are 'now,' at the time of the story's composition, when Sodom was a ghost town."
John R. Coats: Were Sodom and Gomorrah Really Torched for Homosexuality? 2010
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These researchers found that the symptoms manifested and believed tied to epilepsy were sometimes evidence of other etiological diseases.
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But the etiological beliefs of the Nahuas, a topic we explore in depth in Chapter 4, were not so simplistic, attributing all ailments to gods angry with human failings.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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About the origin of the story, Kugel writes that it "looks like an etiological narrative, that is, the recounting of some incident from the distant past that serves to explain the way things are 'now,' at the time of the story's composition, when Sodom was a ghost town."
John R. Coats: Were Sodom and Gomorrah Really Torched for Homosexuality? 2010
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