Lists of 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. The conclusion, as summarized in The Lancet, was this: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder."[1]

However, because of the nature of the history of medicine, new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery.

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

## References

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1. ^ "Classification and nomenclature of morphological defects". Lancet. 1 (7905): 513. March 1975. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92847-0. PMID 46972. S2CID 37636187.

## External links

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* Media related to Diseases and disorders named after people at Wikimedia Commons
* WhoNamedIt.com, a dictionary of medical eponyms.
* MedEponyms.com, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.