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Black's Medical Dictionary (42nd ed, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-0419-4) is a comprehensive medical dictionary featuring definitions of medical terms, concepts and conditions, published by A & C Black Publishers. It was first published in 1906, and is now in its forty-second edition. It is considered a simplified home reference for medical terms. [1]
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 ...
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.
Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder: ABPA Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: ACC Agenesis of the corpus callosum: ACS Acute coronary syndrome: ACTH deficiency Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency: ACUG Arthrocutaneouveal granulomatosis (see Blau syndrome) ACVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: AD Alzheimer's disease: AD
Used as a term of comparison to smallpox. Grippe: Influenza [12] From the French. King's evil: Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis [13] From the belief that the disease could be cured by a royal touch. Lockjaw: Trismus [14] The term is sometimes used as a synonym for tetanus, which usually first manifests as trismus. Monkeypox: Mpox [15] Muerto ...
The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology. Gonad – A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland [193] is a mixed gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) and sex hormones of an organism.
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
C. Calcinosis; Calculus (medicine) Cardiac shunt; Carnoy's solution; Case presentation; Case report; Cause of death; Central venous pressure; Cerebellar degeneration