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Aetiology vs Ethology - What's the difference?

aetiology | ethology |

As nouns the difference between aetiology and ethology

is that aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something while ethology is the scientific study of human and animal behaviour.

aetiology

English

(wikipedia aetiology)

Alternative forms

* * etiology (American)

Noun

  • The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
  • * 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
    • 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 .
  • 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.

    • Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with etymology.

    Derived terms

    * etiologic * etiological * etiologically * etiologist

    ethology

    English

    (wikipedia ethology)

    Noun

  • (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.
  • (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

    • Related terms

    * ethologist

    See also

    * ethnology

    External links

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    * English words suffixed with -ology