Aetiology vs Epidemiology - What's the difference?
aetiology | epidemiology |
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
The study of causes or causation.
(medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
(sciences) The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
(sciences) The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
As nouns the difference between aetiology and epidemiology
is that aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something while epidemiology is the branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.aetiology
English
(wikipedia aetiology)Alternative forms
* * etiology (American)Noun
- I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams .
