Admitting that Haviland has exaggerated the influence of climate as an etiological factor in its specific influence in producing certain diseases; or that M.
One of his observations clearly shows the etiological relation frequently existing between a prosopalgia or a supposed hemicrania and a dental affection.
The general remedies were directed to the suppressing of acridness in the blood, which he considered to be an etiological element of primary importance.
Such is the doctrine which underlies the etiological concept of abnormal personality in psychiatry as well as in criminology, or points the way to its bio-social sources.
Lombroso himself attributed a vast influence to this etiological factor of criminality; and every day this far-sighted intuition of the master is confirmed and made clearer.
This constitutes in criminology, as well as in psychiatry, the resultant of all etiological concepts, pertaining to the interpretation of individual phenomena.
It is, however, probable that arteriosclerosis is not the cause of any of the cases of heart block directly, but it is only a result of the same etiological conditions which produce the lesion or lesions which result in heart block.
Syphilis is not an etiological factor in any of these groups.
I too soon discovered that certainly some traumata with an obvious etiological tinge are opportunely present.
Another theory of the etiological moment results from this.
Since all facts concerning etiological agencies are surrounded with so much obscurity, classification does not lend any particular assistance in the consideration of this ailment.
However, in general practice a classification on an etiological basis is probably more practical and we shall consider inflammation of bursae and thecae as infectious and noninfectious.
A practical manner of classifying inflammation of the elbow is on an etiological basis.
Classification on an etiological basis would attempt to associate conditions, the morbid anatomy and gravity of which would justly preclude their being combined.
The cause of arteritis is unknown in many instances, but parasitic invasion and contiguous involvement of vessels in some inflammatory injuries are etiological factors.
Often in these cases the beginning of this mental attitude, or at least its occasion in the incident of the killing of the bird is forgotten, or at least not consciously referred to as anetiological element in the dread.
Nearly always there is something in the history besides syphilis that seems to be an essential etiological factor.
The third etiological factor is the most important.
The usual etiological explanation, however, is that in youth short shoes were worn which initiated a tendency to divert the big toe inward toward the other toes.
The real etiological train seems to be that a weakened heart sometimes without any valve lesion but with a muscular or vascular degeneration hampering its activity is further seriously disturbed by the overloading of the stomach.
Austin Flint, expressed himself very emphatically with regard to mental influence over digestion, and to solicitude of mind as one of the most frequent etiological factors in dyspepsia.
The direct causation is probably intimately connected with the second etiological factor in the production of cardiac neuroses.
Indeed we can also give an etiological account, though a very incomplete one, of the origin of my body, and a somewhat better account of its development and conservation, and this is the substance of physiology.
I will only add that Dr Araujo deceives himself if he imagines that the full etiological significance of parasites in relation to disease will receive general professional recognition for many years to come.
Apart from the interest which attaches to the natural history of the nematoids, they raise, in effect, etiological and prophylactic questions, the extreme importance of which we believe it would be needless to demonstrate.
Dietary deficiency as theetiological factor in pellagra.
Even Beckwith, who could not coincide with others as to the great importance of intemperance as an etiological element, says distinctly, that intemperance was, by far, the most potent of all removable causes of mental disease.
It is more especially of recent years that a laudable attempt to differentiate the various etiological factors involved in different forms of headache has been made.
All cases of chest disease should have the benefit of a roentgenologic study to exclude bronchial foreign body as an etiological factor.
Corking the cannula is an excellent orthopedic treatment in certain cases where muscle atrophy and partial inflammatory fixation of the cricoarytenoid joints areetiological factors in the stenosis.
Moreover, casual local stimulation, especially towards the end of the second period of childhood, has no very profound etiological significance.
Frequently the climbing of the pole in the gymnasium is regarded as being the etiological factor in the induction of premature masturbation.
Undoubtedly, however, an important etiological consideration is the fact of having had the disease previously.
This investigator has been enabled to establish a definite etiological relation between the septicæmia of certain animals and accompanying minute vegetable organisms.
Its presence, however, on a large scale and in various parts of {86} the body at the same time, is met with under such circumstances as indicate a distinct etiological relation.
As has already been stated, age, sex, and parturition can be regarded as etiological factors only in so far as they favor the occurrence of accidental inoculation.
These anatomical discoveries resulted in uniting more closely the affections scrofula and tuberculosis from the histological standpoint, and the union has become more firmly cemented from the etiological investigations.
Farr considered the exhalations from sewers an importantetiological factor.
In the present consideration this etiological distinction will be maintained.
The identification of tuberculosis with the pearly distemper and certain scrofulous affections is thus established from the etiological as well as the histological point of view.
The germ theory continues to be in the position of a probable hypothesis, not in that of an established doctrine of etiological science.
Solar light should be excluded {452} as rigidly and completely as possible, since it is reasonably certain that its access to the face has an etiological relation to the pitting of that part, often the most serious sequel of the affection.
And yet these conditions, which we describe as "anxiety equivalents," are comparable to anxiety in all its clinical and etiological relations.
Psychoanalytic investigation does, in fact, acquaint us with a new factor, not considered in our etiological series, which is recognized most easily in those cases where permanent well-being is suddenly disturbed by an attack of neurosis.
You have certainly noticed that in the last discussions I have introduced a new factor into the structure of the etiological chain, namely, the quantity, the amount of energy that comes under consideration.
In the ordinary forms of the so-called true neuroses, however, the etiological significance of sexual life is a crude fact open to observation.
He had until recently occupied a leading public position, and the onerous duties that devolved on him in connection with this, evidently stood in direct etiological relation to his trouble.
I have to do here only with those cases where anæmia is the primary and etiological of a group of symptoms, and where therefore it is to this that the treatment must be mainly directed.
I know of no close analogues to this etiological myth.
None of these tales, however, assume the droll form: they are told as serious etiological myths.
We could also posit a psychological interrelation in the form of an “etiological assumption” according to the terminology of psychoanalysis.
Then first will the sought-for “etiological assumption” attain to its desired clearness.
The prognosis will depend upon the character and gravity of the associated symptoms, the presence or absence of diathesis, and the etiological importance attached to dentition.
Intemperance cannot, however, be the only cause; and here, as elsewhere, it is not easy to say what importance is to be attached to it as an etiological factor.
The question as to what role is played by heredity in the causation of gastric cancer belongs to the etiological study of cancer in general.
In respect to food and indigestion as etiological factors there are several points requiring more explicit statement.
The management, when a diagnosis can be made, must be guided mainly by the etiological indications.
Modern as well as the older authors have very generally accepted the conclusion that a constitutional tendency or liability to this disease is its most frequent and potential etiological factor.
This briefly covers the whole ground of the etiological relations of the disease.
No etiological importance can be attached to the occasional association of cancer with open or cicatrized simple ulcers in different parts of the same stomach.
Perhaps no disease has furnished a more fertile field for etiological conjectures than scurvy.
The influence of this as an etiological factor in derangement of digestion can scarcely be exaggerated.
Not sharing the etiological superstition which attributes so many diseases of infancy to dentition, I still know that a slight irritation of the gums may suffice to exhaust the slim resisting power of the infant.
The dominant etiological feature is that mental deficiency and want of balance depend upon hereditary conditions, or conditions acquired in the earliest stages of development.
Barr of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children has published an etiological table embodying the results of a careful examination of 4050 cases of mental defect.
This possibility suggests that the influence of heredity may be vastly greater than the etiological tables would indicate.
The constitutional treatment, beyond a regulation of the diet, is to be based upon a correct appreciation of the etiological factors in the individual case.
The so-called "shell-fish" group of foods play an important etiological part in some cases.
A microbacillus has been found by several observers, and credited with etiological influence.
The effect of treatment is always rapid and positive, but unless the etiological factors have ceased to act, the result is usually but temporary.
A small parasite (demodex folliculorum, acarus folliculorum) is sometimes found in the sebaceous mass, but its presence is without etiological significance, as it is also found in healthy follicles.
Removal of theetiological factor is of first importance.
The same may be stated of the symptomatic erythemata, but in these there is at times difficulty in recognizing the etiological factor; constitutional treatment, if necessary, is to be based upon general principles.
With systemic remedies directed toward a removal or modification of the etiological factors, and, for the temporary relief of the itching, suitable antipruritic applications.
Various rheumatic and nervous disorders are not infrequently associated with it, and are doubtless of etiological significance.
Heredity is usually an influential factor, and conditions which impair the general nutrition have at times an etiological bearing.
Exposure to sun and wind is an important, if not essential, etiological factor.
Intestinal toxins are doubtless importantetiological factors in some cases.
Symptomatic atrophy usually responds to proper measures, but always slowly; treatment is based upon the etiological factors.
Not the least advantage of the etiological standpoint of our survey of the disorders and diseases of the heart and arteries in middle and advanced life is the rational as well as hopeful line of treatment which it enables us to pursue.
The ultimate diagnosis to be reached for practical purposes is the etiological diagnosis.
Nothing could well bring home more fully to us the importance, indeed the necessity, of pursuing in practice the line of inquiry, prognosis and treatment which I have advocated in these lectures--the etiological one.
The etiological indications have still to be respected faithfully; on this I need not dwell.
Huntington's Chorea In spite of the preponderating etiological significance of heredity and the constancy of psychical imperfections in the chronic chorea of Huntington, its confusion with tic is not at all likely to occur.
Among etiological factors of a general description, the rôle played by imitation is all-important, especially in the young.
We have frequently had occasion to remark how potent is this environment as an etiological factor; with young people, in particular, negligence on the part of parent or guardian places the child in jeopardy.
Neglect or indulgence is an etiological factor of the first importance, as we have already seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etiological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decisive; determinative; effectual; formative; occasional; originative; pivotal
