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Chandler's disease; De Quervain syndrome; Dupuytren's contracture; Ewing's sarcoma; Freiberg disease; Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis; Gorham's disease; Haglund's deformity; Hill–Sachs lesion; Iselin's disease; Kashin–Beck disease; Kienbock's disease; Köhler disease; Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome; Morton's neuroma; O'Donoghue's triad ...
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.
Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie: neurology: tabes dorsalis: absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure Abderhalden reaction: Emil Abderhalden: obstetrics: pregnancy: serum reaction;obsolete Abelin reaction: Isaak Abelin: infectious disease: syphilis: presence of arsenical ...
GBS disease Group B Streptococcal disease: GCE Glycine encephalopathy: GD Gestational diabetes: GERD Gastroesophageal reflux disease: GI Gastrointestinal: GIB Gastrointestinal bleeding: GN Glossopharyngeal neuralgia: GORD Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: GSS disease Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker disease: GT/LD Gifted and learning ...
List of childhood diseases and disorders; List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases – diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals ...
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Greek -ῖτις (-îtis) fem. form of -ίτης (-ítēs), pertaining to, because it was used with the feminine noun νόσος (nósos, disease), thus -îtis nósos, disease of the, disease pertaining to tonsillitis-ium: structure, tissue Latin -ium, aggregation or mass of (such as tissue) pericardium
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").