"giving a reason for" (αἰτία, aitia, "cause"; and -λογία, -logia). In medicine, etiology refers to the cause or causes of diseases or pathologies. Where no...

Cancer is caused by genetic changes leading to uncontrolled cell growth and tumor formation. The basic cause of sporadic (non-familial) cancers is DNA...

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they function, or it can refer to the causes themselves. The word is commonly used in medicine (pertaining to causes of disease or illness) and in philosophy...

prevent illness or to alleviate an illness by eliminating its cause. The terms "allopathic medicine" and "allopathy" are drawn from the Greek prefix ἄλλος (állos)...

seizures are observed in patients who do not have epilepsy. There are many causes of seizures. Organ failure, medication and medication withdrawal, cancer...

transport, or nuclear plants), medicine (for medical diagnosis), healthcare industry (e.g., for epidemiology), etc. Root cause analysis is a form of inductive...

state from God. Medieval medicine also recognized that illnesses spread from person to person, that certain lifestyles may cause ill health, and some people...

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. A large share of its claims are pseudoscientific...

downplaying the effectiveness of medicine. Homeopaths claim that use of conventional medicines will "push the disease deeper" and cause more serious conditions...

pain can be a cause for concern and may require a psychiatric evaluation. In other instances the infliction of pain is consensual but caused by another person...

who lacked the ability to understand causes of death attributed unknown causes to "old age." With modern medicine and medical machinery, doctors are now...

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medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through...

Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 14 (4): 245–258. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(98)00017-8...

Ancient Medicine had described the essential characteristics of a cause as it is considered in medicine: We must, therefore, consider the causes of each...

thought to be humoral were in fact caused by microbes. The concept of "humors" may have origins in Ancient Egyptian medicine, or Mesopotamia, though it was...

does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis...

In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on...

Internal medicine, also known as general internal medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention...

"Sturge-Weber syndrome and port-wine stains caused by somatic mutation in GNAQ". The New England Journal of Medicine. 368 (21): 1971–1979. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1213507...

were caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods. He was acknowledged by the disciples of Pythagoras for allying philosophy and medicine. He...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute...

Clinical Medicine. Retrieved 11 November 2019. Marine JE (2012). "ECG Features that suggest a potentially life-threatening arrhythmia as the cause for syncope"...

practices are New Age medicine, pseudo-medicine, unorthodox medicine, holistic medicine, fringe medicine, and unconventional medicine, with little distinction...

life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage of sepsis is followed...

used systemically, and paved the way for the antibiotic revolution in medicine. In bacteria, antibacterial sulfonamides act as competitive inhibitors...

of Medicine, this was in agreement with Galen who believed that the formal cause of illness is based upon the individual's temperament. Final Cause: The...

pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots is the most frequent cause of sciatica, being present in about 90% of cases. This is particularly true...