Causing or relating to the origin or cause of a disease; relating to etiology, the medical study of what causes diseases.
From Greek aition (cause) + -genic (producing or causing). Combines the idea of 'cause' with 'generating' to describe disease-causing factors.
Etiogenic is the word doctors use when hunting for 'whodunit'—if a virus is etiogenic for a cold, it means that virus is literally the culprit creating the disease.
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