Because it does not influence the substrata of the diseased manifestations, the cells and organs, but only the cause of the disease, I call it aetiological therapy, which comes to approximately the same thing as the therapeutic endeavours which are referred to in other quarters as causal, radical, abortive, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture] Reference
It is aetiological therapy in contrast to the symptomatic therapy just described. From Wordnik.com. [Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Fundamentally the story is an evident aetiological myth, intended to account for the existence of some curious swampy hollow. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
On the second point: the historical, the aetiological, and the anagogical are all three interpretations of the one literal interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
It is generally accepted by chiros that back pain is multi factorial and can arise from a multitude of aetiological factors just like the medics. From Wordnik.com. [Simon's Choice] Reference
Incidentally, demon possession 'may also be an aetiological factor in some non-psychiatric conditions' - although there is no mention of which ones. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I now come to the problem of examining the measures currently in use to see to what extent they take account of the aetiological factors, as I have just described them. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Just as the myth was provided with an aetiological expla - nation when it had ceased at length to be self-explanatory, so the image came to be interpreted allegorically when it had lost its self-evident character. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
Augustine held that all readings of Scripture, however structured, should express charity, yet he too could speak of a hierarchy of levels, for instance, historical, aetiological, analogical, and allegorical (De utilitate credendi, 3.5). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The CMF has a guidance section on its website called Demon Possession and Mental Illness which asks if doctors should 'see demonic influence as being a neglected aetiological factor within a multifactorial model for the aetiology of mental disorder?'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
The choice laid before the monks is curious, and hardly consonant with the usual spirit of abjuring the world; it may be aetiological, designed to explain, and perhaps to excuse, the opulence and temporal importance of Clonmacnois at the time when it was written. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
According to Israëls, writes Rycroft, Schreber's father "was not as famous and influential as both Schatzman and Freud had assumed, was not such a paragon as Freud had assumed or as vicious as Schatzman had painted him, and neither Freud's nor Schatzman's aetiological theories stand up to critical scrutiny.". From Wordnik.com. [Another Soul Murder] Reference
Servius gives an aetiological myth to account for the practice. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
Elsewhere he distinguishes four senses of Scripture: historical, aetiological. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Haemophilus parasuis (aetiological agent of Glässer's disease) in the third piglet. From Wordnik.com. [ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds] Reference
This novel observation has potentially important aetiological and clinical implications. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Medicine: New Articles] Reference
These are frank nature-myths, 'aetiological,' giving a fabulous reason for facts of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
Figure 3 is a schematic model of the possible aetiological factors for PPS and their interactions. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Arnson Y, Amital H, Shoenfeld Y (2007) Vitamin D and autoimmunity: new aetiological and therapeutic considerations. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
And from minds of a more reflective cast than the Roman, it received answer in the form of mythology, of aetiological myths. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of God in Early Religions] Reference
The purpose of their study was to describe the morphology, investigate the pathogenesis, and evaluate the aetiological role of. From Wordnik.com. [ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds] Reference
It was what is called an "aetiological myth;" by the learned it was merely a story devised to account for the fact that the house was not occupied. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
These accounts are consistent with the data obtained from psychiatric literature, including various phenomenological, aetiological and psychopathogenetic aspects of the déjà vu experience. From Wordnik.com. [Bayblab] Reference
But this evidence you explain away by aetiological guesses, absolutely modern, and, I conceive, to anyone familiar with historical inquiry, not more valuable as history than other explanatory myths. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference
Tuna story belongs to a very well known class of aetiological plant-stories, which are meant to explain a no longer intelligible name of a plant, such as Snakeshead, Stiefmutterchen, &c.; it is in fact a clear case of what I call disease of language, cured by the ordinary nostrum of folk-etymology. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
A priori aetiological hypotheses, promise much in elucidating the pathogenesis of complex diseases such as PD. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
It is in this sense that myths are aetiological. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of God in Early Religions] Reference
(3) 'The Tuna story belongs to a very well known class of aetiological plant-stories' (aetiological: assigning a cause for the plant, its peculiarities, its name, &c.), 'which are meant to explain a no longer intelligible name of a plant, & c.'. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
(2000) The transmission dynamics of the aetiological agent of scrapie in a sheep flock. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
E (named aetiological fraction in. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
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