the cause of a disease

the philosophical study of causation

See Aetiology.

The science of causes. Same as tiology.

The doctrine of causes, specifically of the causes of disease; causation.

Science explaining causes of a disease; causation.

The science of causes, esp. of disease.

The science of the causes of a thing, especially of diseases.

The doctrine of causes, particularly with reference to diseases.

But if Providence does not act through secondary causes in this particular sphere of etiology, then why does Dr. Meigs take such pains to reason so extensively about the laws of contagion, which, on that supposition, have no more to do with this case than with the plague which destroyed the people after David had numbered them? – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

But, in case I die, Cumberledge, be sure you collect the notes I took as I was sickening- they are most important for the history and etiology of the disease. – Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose by Grant Allen

Where we can establish the etiology of a given case, we cannot of course be in doubt as to the remedy; and in many instances of this kind we find in electricity our most potent curative agent. – The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig

Physiology and Biology - Diagnosis- Etiology- Therapeutics. – Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward

Let it be well understood, that I claim no other merit than that of discussing these questions of etiology, in that order and with that common sense which fix ideas firmly in the mind- which, if I may use the term, photograph them on those parts of the brain allotted to the memory and judgment; also of drawing from known and admitted facts more rational and practical conclusions than those which have been current up to the present time. – On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon

The obscurity, in many cases, of its etiology, as well as its frequent obstinacy under the most diverse methods of treatment, successively employed, are alone sufficient to warrant us in having recourse to electricity, where this has not already been employed. – The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig

The etiology is supplied in other contemporary sources, written in a more discerning spirit- and it is this, that the Provost was a man of immense ability, and of rare personal ascendency. – The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by John Hely Hutchinson

It is evident, therefore, that the whole etiology of a case of mental disease must be carefully studied before the related family stock can be safely discredited. – Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease by Horatio Milo Pollock

In other words, he suggested that the etiology of these diseases would be found to lie in the lack of the vitamine factors. – The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy

This may be a connecting link in the etiology of sporadic outbreaks of the disease in which all other hypotheses as to its genesis seem untenable. – Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

The etiology will probably suggest itself if the history is carefully taken. – Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh

Let us therefore examine this question of etiology, and try to discover what opinion ought to prevail. – On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon