etiologic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to causes or origins.
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Pathology. originating from; causal.
etiologic agent.
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of or relating to etiology.
Other Word Forms
- etiologically adverb
Etymology
Origin of etiologic
First recorded in 1900–05; etiolog(y) + -ic
Example Sentences
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“Right now, we are operating under the assumption that Aeromonas is the etiologic agent of most infections resulting from exposures at the event,” Brown said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023
In medicine, we are taught to seek out and eradicate the etiologic agents of disease.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2018
The younger the patient who has arteriosclerosis, the more probable is it that syphilis is the etiologic factor.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
The foregoing are types of degenerative psychoses met with in imprisonment, and there can be no question that the prison milieu is the etiologic factor here.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
Muscular overwork is to be reckoned with as an etiologic factor.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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