The cause of a disease.
synonym: aetiology.
Roget 490:
knowledge;
cognizance,
cognition,
cognoscence†;
acquaintance,
experience,
ken [Scot.],
privity†,
insight,
familiarity;
comprehension,
apprehension;
recognition;
appreciation
etc.
(judgment)
480;
intuition;
conscience,
consciousness;
perception,
precognition;
acroamatics†.
light,
enlightenment;
glimpse,
inkling;
glimmer,
glimmering;
dawn;
scent,
suspicion;
impression
etc.
(idea)
453;
discovery
etc.
480.1.
system of knowledge,
body of knowledge;
science,
philosophy,
pansophy†;
acroama†;
theory,
aetiology†,
etiology;
circle of the sciences;
pandect†,
doctrine,
body of doctrine;
cyclopedia,
encyclopedia;
school
etc.
(system of opinions)
484.
tree of knowledge;
republic of letters
etc.
(language)
560.
erudition,
learning,
lore,
scholarship,
reading,
letters;
literature;
book madness;
book learning,
bookishness;
bibliomania†,
bibliolatry†;
information,
general information;
store of knowledge
&c.;
education
etc.
(teaching)
537;
culture,
menticulture†,
attainments;
acquirements,
acquisitions;
accomplishments;
proficiency;
practical knowledge
etc.
(skill)
698;
liberal education;
dilettantism;
rudiments
etc.
(beginning)
66.
deep knowledge,
profound knowledge,
solid knowledge,
accurate knowledge,
acroatic knowledge†,
acroamatic knowledge†,
vast knowledge,
extensive knowledge,
encyclopedic knowledge,
encyclopedic learning;
omniscience,
pantology†.
march of intellect;
progress of science,
advance of science,
advance of learning;
schoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much]
scholar
etc.
492.
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Roget 655:
disease;
illness,
sickness
etc.
adj.;
ailing
&c.;
all the ills that flesh is heir to"
[Hamlet];
morbidity,
morbosity†;
infirmity,
ailment,
indisposition;
complaint,
disorder,
malady;
distemper,
distemperature†.
visitation,
attack,
seizure,
stroke,
fit.
delicacy,
loss of health,
invalidation,
cachexy†;
cachexia [Med.],
atrophy,
marasmus†;
indigestion,
dyspepsia;
decay
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
decline,
consumption,
palsy,
paralysis,
prostration.
taint,
pollution,
infection,
sepsis,
septicity†,
infestation;
epidemic,
pandemic,
endemic,
epizootic;
murrain,
plague,
pestilence,
pox.
sore,
ulcer,
abscess,
fester,
boil;
pimple,
wen
etc.
(swelling)
250;
carbuncle,
gathering,
imposthume†,
peccant humor,
issue;
rot,
canker,
cold sore,
fever sore;
cancer,
carcinoma,
leukemia,
neoplastic disease,
malignancy,
tumor;
caries,
mortification,
corruption,
gangrene,
sphacelus†,
sphacelation†,
leprosy;
eruption,
rash,
breaking out.
fever,
temperature,
calenture†;
inflammation.
ague,
angina pectoris [Lat.],
appendicitis;
Asiatic cholera†,
spasmodic cholera;
biliary calculus,
kidney stone,
black death,
bubonic plague,
pneumonic plague;
blennorrhagia†,
blennorrhoea†;
blood poisoning,
bloodstroke†,
bloody flux,
brash;
breakbone fever†,
dengue fever,
malarial fever,
Q-fever;
heart attack,
cardiac arrest,
cardiomyopathy [Med.];
hardening of the arteries,
arteriosclerosis,
atherosclerosis;
bronchocele [Med.],
canker rash,
cardialgia [Med.],
carditis [Med.],
endocarditis [Med.];
cholera,
asphyxia;
chlorosis,
chorea,
cynanche†,
dartre [Fr.];
enanthem†,
enanthema†;
erysipelas;
exanthem†,
exanthema;
gallstone,
goiter,
gonorrhea,
green sickness;
grip,
grippe,
influenza,
flu;
hay fever,
heartburn,
heaves,
rupture,
hernia,
hemorrhoids,
piles,
herpes,
itch,
king's evil,
lockjaw;
measles,
mumps†,
polio;
necrosis,
pertussis,
phthisis†,
pneumonia,
psora†,
pyaemia†,
pyrosis [Med.],
quinsy,
rachitis†,
ringworm,
rubeola,
St. Vitus's dance,
scabies,
scarlatina,
scarlet fever,
scrofula,
seasickness,
struma†,
syntexis†,
tetanus,
tetter†,
tonsillitis,
tonsilitis†,
tracheocele [Med.],
trachoma,
trismus [Med.],
varicella [Med.],
varicosis [Med.],
variola [Med.],
water qualm,
whooping cough;
yellow fever,
yellow jack.
fatal disease
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
dangerous illness,
galloping consumption,
churchyard cough;
general breaking up,
break up of the system.
[Disease of mind]
idiocy
etc.
499;
insanity
etc.
503.
martyr to disease;
cripple;
the halt the lame and the blind;"
valetudinary†,
valetudinarian;
invalid,
patient,
case;
sickroom,
sick-chamber.
[Science of disease]
pathology,
etiology,
nosology†.
[Veterinary]
anthrax,
bighead;
blackleg,
blackquarter†;
cattle plague,
glanders†,
mange,
scrapie,
milk sickness;
heartworm,
feline leukemia,
roundworms;
quarter-evil,
quarter-ill;
rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents]
virus,
bacterium,
bacteria.
[types of viruses]
DNA virus;
RNA virus.
[RNA viruses]
rhinovirus;
rhabdovirus;
picornavirus.
[DNA viruses]
herpesvirus;
cytomegalovirus,
CMV;
human immunodefficiency virus,
HIV.
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Roget 155:
attribution,
theory,
etiology,
ascription,
reference to,
rationale;
accounting for
etc.
v.;
palaetiology1,
imputation,
derivation from.
filiation†,
affiliation;
pedigree
etc.
(paternity)
166.
explanation
etc.
(interpretation)
522;
reason why
etc.
(cause)
153.
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Dutch: etiologie
Polish: etiologia