[f. next + -IST.] One who studies etiology or the science of causes.
1830. R. Knox, Béclard’s Anat., 174. One of the points of minute anatomy that have most exercised … the imagination of etiologists.
1866. Times, 17 Aug., 10/3. The etiologist will be the better enabled to estimate aright the influence of other insanitary elements.
