aetiology
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiologia), from αἰτία (“cause”).
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Noun [edit]
aetiology (countable and uncountable; plural aetiologies)
- The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:
- 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 [transl. Traumätiologie].
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:
- The study of causes or causation.
- (medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
Usage notes [edit]
- Not to be confused with etymology.
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Translations [edit]
study of causes or origins
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