Aetiology

In other words, out of the 1,300 cases now being studied on the programme, several dozen new diseases should soon be identified and their exact aetiology unravelled. ❋ Robin McKie (2010)

Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A psychologist I know gives her last lecture of each year on a paper entitled ‘The aetiology and treatment of childhood’. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I know a little about Crohn's...enough to know that it does not have an emotional aetiology. *hugs* ❋ Orannia (2010)

This ethnography of alleged links between child-rearing practices, rural economic decline and mental illness probably did get the aetiology of schizophrenia in Ireland wrong. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[HzH] Well, my personal conviction that there must be ... first of all there must be an infectious aetiology of this type of malignant disease, but secondly also I was in-between always encouraged – in spite of the fact that we didn't find directly this virus – by the fact that I saw how many questions there remained open in the papilloma virus field. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I do not think that the aetiology of Autism and the link to the MMR vaccine is too unlikely in this context. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Malignant melanoma and lymphoproliferative malignancy: is there a shared aetiology? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Several doctors have told me that illness in general, or at least in numerous common cases, has a profound psychological component in its aetiology, so the idea that all or a great deal of illness is due to the general psychological impact of sin strikes me as quite plausible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The CMF has a guidance section on its website called Demon Possession and Mental Illness which asks if doctors should 'see demonic influence as being a neglected aetiological factor within a multifactorial model for the aetiology of mental disorder?' ❋ TK (2009)

Head & Neck Oncology, via BioMed Central, encompasses all aspects of clinical practice, basic and translational research on the aetiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, assessment, management, follow-up and prognosis of patients with head and neck tumours ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the aetiology of national wealth, partisanship and politics are an explosive mix, seen as a harbinger of a failing health. ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2008)

It doesn't seem to matter what new insights are provided about the aetiology of autism, vaccines always get the blame. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even if one looks to the Enlightenment as a moment when the concept of the European nation-state was being forged — hence, as a point in time at which certain progressive possibilities may not yet have been foreclosed on — the study may feel more like the investigation of the aetiology of a disease than an excavation of laudable principles that have hithertofore been neglected. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Could you pass on to your Oxford pals that “etiology” does not appear at OED.com, although the printed OED refers the inquisitor to “aetiology”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They concluded that toxicogenic theory fails all these criteria, with there being “no convincing evidence to support the fundamental postulate that IEI has a toxic aetiology” and that “the hypothesised biological processes and mechanisms are implausible”.8 Moreover, they also concluded that “psychogenic theory meets all of the criteria directly or indirectly”, being “characterised by a progressive research programme including double-blind, placebo-controlled provocation challenge studies”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Based on these results, they proposed that Helicobacter pylori is involved in the aetiology of these diseases. ❋ Unknown (2005)