Medical Eponyms

Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions. This was reported in The Lancet where the conclusion was summarized as: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder."^[1] New discoveries are often attached to the people who made the discovery because of the nature of the history of medicine.

List of eponymous diseases
List of eponymous fractures
List of eponymous medical signs
List of eponymous surgical procedures
List of human anatomical parts named after people
List of eponymous medical devices
List of eponymous medical treatments
List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
List of orthopaedic eponyms
List of eponyms in neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery

References

↑ "Classification and nomenclature of morphological defects". Lancet 1 (7905): 513. March 1975. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92847-0. PMID 46972.

External links

WhoNamedIt.com, a dictionary of medical eponyms.
MedEponyms.com, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.

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[pmid46972-1] "Classification and nomenclature of morphological defects". Lancet 1 (7905): 513. March 1975. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92847-0. PMID 46972.