Etiology
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Etiology (phenomena.
In the past, when many physical phenomena were not well understood or when histories were not recorded,
creation myths
explaining the origins of the world or its relationship to believers.
Medicine
In medicine, the etiology of an illness or condition refers to the frequent studies to determine one or more factors that come together to cause the illness. Relatedly, when disease is widespread,
inferred that it prevented scurvy, even though he did not know precisely why. It took about another two hundred years to discover the precise etiology; the lack of vitamin C
in a sailor's diet.
The following are examples of intrinsic factors:
- Inherited conditions, or conditions that are passed down to you from your parents. An example of this is hemophilia, a disorder that leads to excessive bleeding.
- Metabolic and endocrine, or hormone, disorders. These are abnormalities in the chemical signaling and interaction in the body. For example, Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease that causes high blood sugar.
- Neoplastic disorders or cancer where the cells of the body grow out of control.
- Problems with immunity, such as allergies, which are an overreaction of the immune system.[3]
Mythology
An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a
Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus. The story of Prometheus' sacrifice trick at Mecone in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves. In Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe
, the origin of the color of mulberries is explained, as the white berries become stained red from the blood gushing forth from their double suicide.
See also
- Backstory
- Bradford Hill criteria
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Creation myth
- Just-so story
- Just So Stories
- Pathology
- Pourquoi story
- Problem of causation
- Involution (esoterism)
References
- ISBN 0-19-521942-2.
- ^ "etiology". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.
- ^ "Etiology of Disease: Definition & Example - Video & Lesson Transcript".
External links
The dictionary definition of etiology at Wiktionary
