Definitions for etiology

etiology e·ti·ol·o·gy

Spelling: [ee-tee-ol-uh-jee]
IPA: /ˌi tiˈɒl ə dʒi/

Etiology is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in etiology (egilooty).

Definitions for etiology

noun

  1. Pathology. the study of the causes of diseases. the cause or origin of a disease.
  2. the study of causation.
  3. any study of causes, causation, or causality, as in philosophy, biology, or physics.

Origin of etiology

1545-55; Latin aetiologia Greek aitiología determining the cause of something, equivalent to aití(a) cause + -o- -o- + -logia -logy

Examples for etiology

First, because they help317 us to understand the pathology and etiology of malaria.

Lombroso assigns to atavism a position of pre-eminence in the etiology of crime.

The etiology of rachitis must be studied from two points of view.

The third volume of the fifth edition treats of the etiology and cure of crime.

Let us turn to some of the current theories of the etiology of scurvy.

Such is our view of the etiology of manic-depressive insanity as a whole.

A number of other measures will be inferred from what has been said in the section on etiology.

The development is insidious, and the etiology is not known.

With the etiology mainly exogenous 20% recovered and 14.3% improved.

Friendship is the trump card in the movement for equality, not etiology.

Word Value for etiology
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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