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

1. ↑ "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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