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How To Use etiologic In A Sentence

• The angulated and rhomboidal shape in addition to the striated surface of the sporangiospores allowed the presumptive identification of the etiologic agent as Rhizopus species.
• But the etiological beliefs of the Nahuas, a topic we explore in depth in Chapter 4, were not so simplistic, attributing all ailments to gods angry with human failings. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• Because of the many etiological factors involved, multifactorial diseases are not, strictly speaking, the sole result of hereditary transmission.
• Moreover, the same etiologic factor may give rise to a great diversity of eruptions.
• Later on, without doubt, we shall be able to substitute for these simply symptomatical and psychological diagnostics, some etiological and physiological diagnostics. A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
• What one misses in the discussion of divination as metaphor, metonymy, semantic privilege, and etiological discourse is how it relates to real individuals and specific occasions where actual ritual implements are utilized.
• Without antiviral drugs or a real understanding of the infectious agent (scientists argued for years over whether bacillus influenzae was the etiological agent of the 1918 flu pandemic, until a "filterable virus" was eventually determined to be the cause), patients were basically on their own against the disease, and the only useful response was a public health one. Sunday, Flu-ey Sunday
• Miller 1973 observed three etiological reasons for drug abuse, which are not necessarily indicative of any severe personal pathology or based on early traumata, deprivation, or distorted parenting. Clinical Work with Adolescents
• On another point, the wonderful therapist Frieda Fromm-Reichman, whose humanity and caring come through in her willingness to go where her patients were (an example in the popular literature can be found in Joanne Greenberg's novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), also gave us the mistaken etiologic idea of the "schizophrenogenic" mother. 'The Enemy of the Mind': An Exchange
• The collective efforts by researchers in our group and others, and by clinicians, brought together sufficient data to convince the scientific community and the relevant authorities that LAV (later to be named human immunodeficiency virus, HIV) was the etiological agent of AIDS. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Autobiography