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

External links

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

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