Etiology

Definitions: Etiology

Etiology

Noun

1. The cause of a disease.

2. The philosophical study of causation.

Date "etiology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Etiology

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	The doctrine of causes, particularly the causes and reasons for diseases. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Etiology

Synonym: aetiology (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Etiology

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attribution	Noun: attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for; v; palaetiology, imputation, derivation from.
Disease	Pathology, etiology, nosology.
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: Etiology

English words defined with "etiology": aetiologic, aetiological, aetiologist ♦ etiologic, etiological, etiologist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "etiology": amyloid degeneration, Arthritis, Rheumatoid ♦ Balkan Nephropathy, Behcet's Syndrome, benign lymphogranulomatosis, Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann syndrome, Boeck's sarcoid ♦ Cerebral Infarction, Community Psychiatry ♦ dermatitis herpetiformis, Dermatitis, Seborrheic, Duhring disease ♦ erythematous eruption ♦ Fever of Unknown Origin ♦ Gonadal Disorders, Granuloma Annulare, Granuloma, Lethal Midline ♦ Headache Disorders, herpetiformis ♦ Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ♦ Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, lupus pernio ♦ Methoxydimethyltryptamines, Military Psychiatry, Monitoring, Immunologic, Mortimer disease ♦ Ovarian Failure, Premature ♦ Parapsoriasis, Penile Induration, Polychondritis, Relapsing, Polycythemia Vera, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Polyneuropathies, Proteus Syndrome, Pulmonary Sarcoidosis, Pyoderma Gangrenosum ♦ Renal amyloidosis, Retroperitoneal Fibrosis, Rhinitis, Vasomotor ♦ Schaumann benign lymphogranulomatosis, Schaumann's syndrome, Skin Diseases, Eczematous, skin erythema, speech clinician, SPEECH PATHOLOGIST, speech therapis, Spondylitis, Ankylosing ♦ VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGIST. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Etiology

Domain	Title
Books	Addictive Behaviors: Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment (reference) Behavior Disorders of Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Etiology, and Intervention (reference) Etiology and Treatment of Acute Lung Injury: From Bemch to Bedside (NATO Science Series. Series I, Life and Behavioural Sciences, V. 336) (reference) Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Volume Two: Etiology and Assessment (reference) Multiple Personality: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Etiology

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Definition of the etiology of uncontrollable hemorrhage in the massively transfused patient. (references)
		Since insomnia has many causes, the indications for treatment are dependent on the etiology. (references)
		In addition, some cases of apparent posttransfusion hepatitis may have a noninfectious etiology. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Etiology

"Etiology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Etiology" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Etiology

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
etiology	62
schizophrenia etiology	10
definition etiology	8
etiology stuttering	6
burn etiology	6
etiology obesity	4
etiology multiple sclerosis	3
autism etiology	3
diabetes etiology	3
define etiology	3
disorganized etiology schizophrenia	3
etiology sars	3
alcoholism etiology	2
cystic etiology fibrosis	2
etiology of bipolar disorder	2
depression etiology	2
disorder etiology personality	2
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Modern Translations: Etiology

Language		Translations for "etiology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		etiologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏علم أسباب الأمراض. (various references)

Bulgarian		етиология. (various references)

Chinese		病原学. (various references)

Czech		etiologie. (various references)

Danish		etiologi, sygdomsaarsag (aetiology), aetiologi (aetiology), aarsagslaere, aarsag. (various references)

Dutch		etiologie (aetiology). (various references)

Farsi		مبجث علت ومعلول , لادشناسی , سبب واثرشناسی . (various references)

French		étiologie, éthologie (ethology). (various references)

German		Aetiologie (aetiology), Ätiologie (aetiology), Äthiologie. (various references)

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

Hungarian		kórokozó kutatás. (various references)

Indonesian		etiologi. (various references)

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

Korean		병인학 (AEtiology). (various references)

Pig Latin		etiologyay

Portuguese		etiologia (aetiology, etiquette), debilitar (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depress, enervation, enfetter, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Russian		этиология (aetiology). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		etiologija. (various references)

Spanish		etiología (aetiology). (various references)

Thai		การแพทย์แขนงหนึ่งที่ศึกษาเกี่ยวกับสาเหตุและต้นกำเนิ�"ของโรค, การศึกษาทางปรัชญาที่เกี่ยวกับสาเหตุและต้นกำเนิ�". (various references)

Turkish		nedenbilim, hastalığın sebebini anlama bilimi. (various references)

Ukranian		етіологія (aetiology, causation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Etiology

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	aitiologia. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Etiology

Derivations
	Words ending with "etiology": aetiology. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Etiology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aetimology, antipology, edeology, ediology, eitiology, eitology, entology, etamology, etemology, eteology, ethiology, etilogy, etimology, etmology, etnology, etology, etyology, metyology, tiology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Etiology"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "etiology" (pronounced ē'tēÄ"lujē or ē'tē'Ä"lujē)
6	-ē Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, archaeology, archeology, cardiology, embryology, epidemiology, genealogy, geology, ideology, physiology, radiology, sociology, theology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anthology, anthropology, apology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, endocrinology, entomology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etymology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, Pomology, psychology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, terminology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
6	-ē' Ä" l u j ē	bacteriology, kinesiology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
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Anagrams: Etiology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-o-o-t-y"
	-2 letters: oolite.
	-3 letters: gooey, igloo, legit, logoi, looey, looie, ology, teloi, toile.
	-4 letters: gelt, gilt, gley, lite, loge, logo, logy, loot, loti, ogle, oily, oleo, olio, tile, toil, tole, tool, toyo, yeti, yogi.
	-5 letters: ego, gel, get, gey, gie, git, goo, got, goy, leg, lei, let, ley, lie, lit, log, loo, lot, lye, oil, ole.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-o-o-t-y"
	+1 letter: aetiology.
	+2 letters: cytologies, logotypies, typologies.
	+3 letters: etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, etymologize, mythologies, mythologize, pteridology, soteriology, terminology.
	+4 letters: bacteriology, cryptologies, derogatorily, dialectology, embryologist, enzymologist, epiphytology, epistemology, etymological, etymologised, etymologises, etymologists, etymologized, etymologizes, glycoprotein, gynecologist, mythologized, mythologizer, mythologizes.
	+5 letters: biotechnology, dactylologies, demythologize, embryologists, enzymologists, epizootiology, etiologically, etymologising, etymologizing, geotropically, glycoproteins, gynecologists, helminthology, ichthyologies, martyrologies, myrmecologist, mythologizers, remythologize, sedimentology, theologically.
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