Aetiology

Definitions: Aetiology

Aetiology

Noun

1. The cause of a disease.

2. The philosophical study of causation.

Date "aetiology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Aetiology

Domain	Definitions
Health	Study of the causes of disease. (references)
Public Administration	The cause of a disease or injury; Also written etiology. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Aetiology

Synonym: etiology (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aetiology

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Knowledge	System of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama; theory, aetiology, etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school; (system of opinions).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aetiology

English words defined with "aetiology": Aitiology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Aetiology

Domain	Title
Books	Acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (Pid: Aspects of Diagnosis, Aetiology and Sequelae Epidemiology and Prevention (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala) (reference) Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health (Oxford Medical Publications) (reference) Crohn's disease : aetiology, clinical manifestations and management (reference) Fertility and infertility in the domestic animals; aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment (reference) Handbook of Psychiatry: Psychoses of Uncertain Aetiology (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Aetiology

"Aetiology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aetiology" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	119	29,501

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aetiology

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
aetiology	4
aetiology caries dental	3
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Modern Translations: Aetiology

Language		Translations for "aetiology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		原� 论. (various references)

Danish		aetiologi (etiology), sygdomsaarsag (etiology), ætiologi, ætiologi. (various references)

Dutch		etiologie (etiology). (various references)

Finnish		syyoppi, etiologia. (various references)

French		étiologie. (various references)

German		Ätiologie (etiology). (various references)

Greek		αιτιολογία (causality, etiology, explanation, justification, narrative, rationale, reason, reasoning), αιτολογία. (various references)

Italian		eziologia (etiology), etiologia (etiology). (various references)

Korean		병인학 (Etiology). (various references)

Pig Latin		aetiologyay

Portuguese		etiologia (etiology, etiquette). (various references)

Russian		этиология (etiology). (various references)

Spanish		etiología (etiology). (various references)

Swedish		etiologi. (various references)

Ukranian		етіологія (causation, etiology). (various references)
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Anagrams: Aetiology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o-o-t-y"
	-1 letter: etiology.
	-3 letters: aiglet, aliyot, gaiety, galiot, galoot, gelati, gelato, goalie, latigo, legato, ligate, oolite, otalgy.
	-4 letters: agile, aglet, agley, gaily, gloat, gooey, igloo, laity, legit, logia, logoi, looey, looie, ology, telia, teloi, togae, toile.
	-5 letters: agio, agly, alit, aloe, alto, egal, gait, gale, gaol, gate, gelt, geta, gilt, gley, glia, goal, goat, ilea, iota, late, lati, lite, loge, logo, logy, loot, lota, loti, ogle, oily, olea, oleo, olio, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, toea, toga, toil, tola, tole, tool, toyo, yagi, yeti, yoga, yogi.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-o-o-t-y"
	+3 letters: bacteriology, derogatorily, dialectology, etymological.
	+4 letters: dactylologies, etiologically, geotropically, martyrologies, theologically.
	+5 letters: anesthesiology, antitechnology, apologetically, etymologically, geopolitically, lysogenization, petrologically, photogenically, teleologically.
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