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Aetiology   Listen
noun
aetiology, etiology  n.  
1.
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; etiology.
2.
The assignment of a cause.
3.
(Med.) The cause or origin of a disease. Now more commonly written etiology.





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... AETIOLOGY, or ETIOLOGY (from Gr. aitia. cause, and logia, discourse), strictly, the science or philosophy of causation, but generally used to denote the part of any special science (and especially of that of medicine and disease) which investigates the causes and origin ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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