Cause (medicine)

"Etiologies" and "etiologic" redirect here. For other uses, see Etiology.

Cause, also known as etiology (/iːtiˈɒlədʒi/) and aetiology, is the reason or origination of something.[1]

The word etiology is derived from the Greek αἰτιολογία, aitiologia, "giving a reason for" (αἰτία, aitia, "cause"; and -λογία, -logia).[2]

  1. ^ Rothman, Kenneth J.; Greenland, Sander; Poole, Charles; Lash, Timothy L. (2008). "Causation and Causal Inference". Modern Epidemiology (Third ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-0-7817-5564-1.
  2. ^ "Aetiology". Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. 2002. ISBN 0-19-521942-2.