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etiologies
Variant of etiology
noun pl. etiologies
- the assignment of a cause, or the cause assigned: the etiology of a folkway
- the science of causes or origins
- the science of the causes or origins of disease
- the causes of a specific disease
Related Forms:
- etiologic adjective or etiological
- etiologically adverb
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