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/iː.tɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/ (UK)
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/iː.tɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/ (UK) · /i.tiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

Definition of aetiology

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
    “I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie].”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
    “I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie].”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The study of causes or causation.
  3. (uncountable)The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
  4. (countable)A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiología), from αἰτία (aitía, “cause”). By surface analysis, aetio- + -logy; Doublet of aetiologia.

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