"aetiology" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a noun that means the cause, set of causes, or origin of a disease or condition. Example sentence: The aetiology of the outbreak remains unknown.
Much of the time the claim is that the biography somehow supplies the aetiology of the poetry.
But the most compelling aetiology centres on his hereditary predisposition, based on an above-average incidence of the condition in the Julio‑Claudian families.
Cue a spate of rants about how he was part of the aetiology of the problem – which indeed he was, up to a point concerning deregulation, which was the wisdom of the age.
In the middle of the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen explained the aetiology of melancholia.
Here, Eumenides presents an aetiology of Athens' own newly reformed homicide court, the Areopagus (situated on a hill just north-west of the Acropolis, not far behind the right shoulders of the first audience).
The 'seduction hypothesis' is an attempt to explain the aetiology of hysteria (the origins of neurosis) by the traumatic force of a premature sexual experience occurring in early childhood, an external event that impinges upon the psychical apparatus but whose memory is repressed, cut off from consciousness.
Aristotle displays some hesitation in his discussion of desire and its relation to practical reason in the aetiology of animal action.
Rather, the transformation in his thinking concerns the aetiology of hysteria in a diagnostic sense; neuroses are no longer said to originate in (presumably rare) childhood sexual violence, and thus they can be seen to pervade rather than oppose whatever might be considered normal sexual development.
Researchers suggested both cancers have "complex mechanisms for their aetiologies".
While Professor Chris Milroy, in a letter to the BMJ, responded, "unlikely does not make it impossible", Dr Rouse replied: "Before most of us will be prepared to accept wristslashing... as a satisfactory and credible explanation for a death, we will also require evidence that such aetiologies are likely; not merely 'possible'possible
What's a mistake, though, is to think these aetiologies explain away the authority the experiences carry.
