Cause (medicine)
Reason for or origin of a disease or pathology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"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]