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Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
The current trend is away from the use of eponymous disease names and towards a medical name that describes either the cause or primary signs. [4] Reasons for this include: A national or ethnic bias attaches to the eponym chosen; Credit should have gone to a different person; An eponym may be applied to different diseases, which creates confusion;
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.
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Lists of places by eponym; Lists of things named after places; List of plant genera named for people (A–C) List of plant genera named for people (D–J) List of plant genera named for people (K–P) List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z) List of awards named after people
Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi, the name given to both renal corpuscle and splenic lymphoid nodules; Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel; Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom; Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner; Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel; Meyer's loop
This category is for lists of medical eponyms (diseases, treatments etc. that have a name derived from the name of a person, place etc.). Pages in category "Lists of medical eponyms" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.