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aetiology

, etiology
1. the study of the causes of diseases
2. the cause of a disease
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aetiology

see ETIOLOGY.
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Waterborne outbreaks will be reviewed in the context of identifying the wide etiological scope and the inability of traditional indicators to mitigate these risks.
A proper etiological situation could not be identified when this aneurysm was questioned in terms of other various etiological factors.
[36] analyzed knowledge of patients with regards to etiological factors of lymphedema.
The frequency of different types and grades of malnutrition and important etiological factors for malnutrition in these children were scrutinized.
The symptoms vary depending on the etiological factors.
It is the etiological agent of listeriosis, a severe foodborne disease that is a major public health concern.
UV light is considered one of the major etiological factor in skin aging, cancer and also to systemic impairment such as immunosuppression.
"That's why we have started this project to create awareness among the people, and train them to enable themselves to overcome etiological factors of diseases without specifically presence of medical professionals, leading towards a healthy environment, dwelled by healthy people."
Diverse etiological factors such as infection, nephritis, blood dyscrasias, coumadin anticoagulation, calculus disease, and dialysis have been attributed to spontaneous non-traumatic renal hemorrhage.
Last year's there was noted clear change of etiological significance of pathogens, inducing acute diarrheal diseases in children (Gorelov et al., 2011; Atmar and Estes, 2006).
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