Aetiology

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  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An inquiry into or a theory of the physical causes of any class of phenomena.
  • noun. Specifically, in medicine, an inquiry into or account of the origin or causes of disease, or of a particular kind or case of disease. Sometimes written aitiology.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
  • noun. The assignment of a cause.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
  • noun. The study of causes or causation.
  • noun. The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the philosophical study of causation
  • noun. the cause of a disease
    • Word Usage
    "Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD."
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