etiological

Examples

• All

• The doctor studied the etiological factors that contributed to the patient's condition.

• Her story is also etiological, explaining how an aspect of the natural world came to be the way it is.

  Academic text (2017)

• An etiological function is defined in relation to its history of natural selection.

  Academic text (1999)

• Many traditional Native American myths contain such etiological elements, showing a strong connection to and awareness of the natural world.

  Academic text (2017)

• Respondents were asked to evaluate the etiological strength of each of the 12 separate factors involved in male homosexuality.

  Academic text (1995)

• Adding to its complexity are the various etiological theories that have existed and often contradicted over the past 50 years.

  Academic text (1993)

• The difficulties connected with applying etiological functions to psychiatric nosologies are numerous.

  Academic text (1999)

• To demonstrate causal relationships, further research is necessary through experimental manipulations of PES to identify etiological or causal factors.

  Academic text (2007)

• Other investigators have also stressed that tissue deformation is a major etiological factor in ulcer formation (8, 27, 28).

  Academic text (1992)

• Unedifying but entertaining, etiological fables are common in both orature and literature as well (Nos. 19, 20, 23, 50).

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

E

etiologic

vsetiological

• Formal

9.9

Relating to the cause or origin of things in philosophy

covers causes and origins more broadly in medicine and science

Antonyms

C

consequential

19 7.4

Having important effects or results

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology