etiology
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Announcing the cause of death as "pneumonia of undetermined etiology", Irkutsk's governor said that "no micro-organisms" linked to the woman's work had been found "in her biological samples".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
There is no explanation for her illness, no etiology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Being the journalist I am, from the beginning of this strange and bewildering acoustic saga, I wanted to determine the etiology of my hearing decline.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
"This new approach looks at the neuronal differences contributing to the etiology of autism spectrum disorder."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
In 2012, several further studies corroborated these initial findings, strengthening the links between these variants of mental illness and family histories and deepening questions about their etiology, epidemiology, triggers, and instigators.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
I argue that all youth football conditioning deaths add up to more than the sum of their individual etiologies.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021
Healthspanners want to understand the etiologies of cancer and heart disease and then block them.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
Scientists suspect that what is called autism may actually be an array of distinct conditions that have different genetic and environmental etiologies but happen to produce similar symptoms.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2014
Follicular-fluid neurotrophin levels in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology for different etiologies of infertility.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2012
He is careful to say that both symptoms and treatment vary with the varied etiologies.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
Vocabulary lists containing etiology
Power Suffix: -ology
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