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polyetiological

polyetiological adjective: relating to more than one etiology.

Adjective

polyetiological (not comparable)

  1. Relating to more than one etiology.
    • As the causative mechanisms are unclear, probably a polyetiological interplay of environmental exposures and genetic predisposition, the therapy is actually a challenge to dermatologists: in English literature, there are nowadays only a few case reports or small case series, with no comparative...2015, Gianluca Nazzaro et al., “Cheilitis granulomatosa associated with lupus erythematosus discoid and treated with methotrexate: report of a case*”, in Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, volume 90...

Origin of polyetiological

From poly- + etiological.

Questions about polyetiological

What does polyetiological mean?
Polyetiological means relating to more than one etiology.
What part of speech is polyetiological?
Polyetiological is an adjective.

Words near polyetiological in the dictionary

  1. polyethyleneimines
  2. polyethyleneoxide
  3. polyethylenes
  4. polyethylenic
  5. polyethylenimine
  6. polyetiological
  7. polyetiologically
  8. polyexponential
  9. polyexponentials
  10. polyextremophile
  11. polyextremophiles

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