Etiology (Noun)
Meaning 1
The cause of a disease.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The researchers studied the etiology of cancer to better understand the complex factors that contribute to its development.
- Understanding the etiology of a disease is crucial in developing effective prevention and treatment strategies.
- The etiology of Alzheimer's disease is still not fully understood, but research suggests that a combination of genetic and environmental factors are involved.
- Identifying the etiology of a patient's illness is the first step in developing a personalized treatment plan.
- Scientists have been studying the etiology of malaria for decades, and have made significant progress in understanding the parasite's life cycle and how it infects humans.
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Meaning 2
The philosophical study of causation.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Epidemiologists examined the etiology of the rare genetic disorder, working to isolate and determine its direct and underlying causes.
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- In analyzing the causations of a recent disease outbreak, they first investigated its direct effects before tracing back its more fundamental driving factors or root causes using evidence to create open conditions definition having that perhaps could explain it, with actual case to an enabling action with respect and over time often over part providing some explanation another even to why relation type historical view material especially often at basic history ongoing each some case out several others several conditions what considered relation or kind of causality that actually causations rather conditions could be the same event or resulting effect or condition kind and more evidence of another long many to seek cause parts same causal conditions being very many relation of like such looking the final very so condition the others very possibly then on possibly while also found for thus if there same reason for also another or result which causes of in one and most of the one has many part made and more thought after several of parts several kind and another situation of as in terms use of each in that for look to so to.
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- Etiology encompasses ideas such as determining a cause's existence as effect or the like, and whether cause itself has an etiology or not.