Of or pertaining to ætiology; connected with or dependent upon the doctrine of efficient or physical causes, as distinguished from teleological or final causes.

adjective. Pertaining to ætiology; assigning a cause.

adjective. Alternative spelling of etiological.

adjective. relating to the etiology of a disease

adjective. of or relating to the philosophical study of causation

"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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