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Definition of Aetiological
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the philosophical study of causation.
Derivative terms: Aetiology, Aetiology, Etiology, Etiology
Partainyms: Etiology, Etiology, Etiology, Etiology
2. Adjective. Relating to the etiology of a disease. "Etiological agent"
Derivative terms: Aetiology, Aetiology, Etiology, Etiology
Partainyms: Etiology, Etiology, Etiology, Etiology
Definition of Aetiological
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of etiological) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Aetiological
1. Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause. Aetiolog"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aetiological
Literary usage of Aetiological
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the by John Earle, Charles Plummer (1899)
"... evidently artificial system of chronology which has been often noticed to run
through the arrangement of thems, as well as by the aetiological character ..."
2. The Myths of Plato by Plato (1905)
"... as " aetiological " Myths, they exhibit the functions of the ... I shall take
the Myth of the Earth-Born in the Republic, which is an aetiological Myth, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1907)
"But what I am contending for is the fact that we must distinguish between the
facts that justify the assertion of an aetiological connection between ..."
4. The Clinical Journal (1902)
"We have the aetiological principle founded upon the presence of the tubercle ...
When we come to treatment based on aetiological grounds we have one thing ..."
5. The Principles of treatment and their applications in practical medicine by John Mitchell Bruce, Edward Quin Thornton (1900)
"From the more practical point of vi*-w aetiological indications introduce us to
prophylaxis. " Prevention is better than cure. ..."
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