aetiology
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
aetiology
- 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 transterm 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.
- French: étiologie
- German: Ätiologie
- Italian: eziologia
- Portuguese: etiologia
- Russian: этиоло́гия
- Spanish: etiología
- Portuguese: etiologia
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