Differential Diagnosis= In arriving at a diagnosis, when the question is whether or not arteriosclerosis is the mainetiologic factor, the most important fact to know is the age of the patient.
The abuse of tobacco was evidently the main etiologic factor in about half of the cases.
The younger the patient who has arteriosclerosis, the more probable is it that syphilis is the etiologic factor.
There was also aneurysm of the left upper division present and, to settle the etiologic nature of the process, Spirochete pallida were found in the wall of the aneurysm sac and in that of the pulmonary artery.
Certainly the character of the arterial tissue has much to do with the determination of degenerative changes which may result from the action of one or more of the etiologic factors.
In this edition arteriosclerosis is not regarded as a disease with a definiteetiologic factor.
Syphilis= Syphilis is one of the most important of the etiologic factors in the production of arteriosclerosis.
The etiologic factors that are most often found in the history are the prevalence of syphilis and hard physical labor.
So far as the anatomical lesions in the aorta and branches are concerned, there is much uniformity even though the etiologic factors have been diverse.
Alcohol= has been blamed for much, and as an etiologic factor in the production of arteriosclerosis formerly was accorded a first place.
Muscular Overwork= Muscular overwork is to be reckoned with as an etiologic factor.
The different types noted clinically depend upon the nature of the etiologic factors and the kind of arterial tissue with which the individual is endowed.
Acquired Form= As a rule the cases usually seen belong in this group because it seems as if a connection could be established almost always between one or more of the etiologic factors to be described and the disease.
The hasty swallowing of unmasticated food, too large a bolus, defective or artificial teeth, flaccidity of tissues, and spasm of the cricopharyngeus muscle, are etiologic factors.
Possibly some of the cures have been due to the dilatation of organic lesions, or to the crowding back of an enlarged malposed, or otherwise abnormal left lobe of the liver, which Mosher has shown to be an etiologic factor.
If the pouch is small, the subdiverticular esophageal orifice may be dilated with esophagoscopic bougies, thus overcoming the etiologic factor of spastic or organic stenosis.
In most cases of bronchiectasis there are strong indications for a bronchoscopic diagnosis, to eliminate such conditions as foreign body, cicatricial bronchial stenosis, or endobronchial neoplasm as etiologic factors.
Schoedel suggests that scurvy may at times be the etiologic factor in coxa vara as well as in some cases diagnosed as congenital dislocation of the hip.
It is quite possible that one may be what might be termed a simple deficiency disease, whereas another may have important additional etiologic factors.
Results of this kind show that there must be a relationship between the etiologic factors of scurvy and of beriberi.
A careful perusal of the literature leaves one with the impression that the most experienced observers are not entirely satisfied with the exclusively etiologic relationship of the vitamine to its respective nutritional disorder.
The secondary etiologic factors are mainly predisposing; a few words, however, must be added concerning what may be termed exciting factors.
Its relationship to scurvy cannot, therefore, at the present time, be discussed from an etiologic viewpoint.
In 1877 Ralfe confirmed the potassium deficiency in the urine, but denied its importance from an etiologic standpoint, as he was unable to benefit scurvy patients by administering potassium nitrate.
In regard to scurvy, there may well be other etiologic factors, but they are of a secondary character.
Although we shall, therefore, treat adult and infantile scurvy separately, it should be borne in mind that, from an etiologic and pathologic viewpoint, such a division is artificial and is resorted to merely for purposes of clarity.
It is of importance from both the etiologic and the therapeutic standpoint to distinguish clearly between the age when infantile scurvy is commonly diagnosed, and the earlier stage when it appears as a general nutritional disorder.
In spite of their paucity these cases require separate consideration because they represent an important aspect from an etiologic standpoint.
Its etiologic {282} relation to syphilis is now almost universally admitted.
Uric acid is decreased before an attack of gout and increased afterward, but its etiologic relation is still uncertain.
The foregoing are types of degenerative psychoses met with in imprisonment, and there can be no question that the prison milieu is the etiologic factor here.
These cases differ from the so-called acute prison-psychotic-complex in that the etiologic factor does not consist in a single emotional experience.
Furthermore, because of the nature of this etiologic factor the chances for reformation are very poor, which prognosis has already been justified by the subsequent career of this patient.
The purpose is to convey the fact that there may be no etiologic distinction between the two forms, and it is impossible to decide clinically in the beginning of an endocardial inflammation which form is present.
Nicotin is likely to be an etiologic factor in this class.
This work has been so slightly related to practical ophthalmology, and so contradictory in its results that alterations in the fluids can only be regarded as a possible etiologic factor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etiologic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
