Before revision: The word is commonly used in medicine (pertaining to causes of disease) and in philosophy, but also in physics, psychology, government, geography, spatial analysis , theology, and biology, in reference to the causes or origins of various phenomena.
After revision: The word is commonly used in medicine (pertaining to causes of disease) and in philosophy, but also in physics, psychology, government, geography, spatial analysis and theologybiology, in reference to the causes or origins of various phenomena.