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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Lists of medical eponyms. This category is for lists of medical eponyms (diseases, treatments etc. that have a name derived from the name of a person, place etc.).
Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring (1638–1693), Dutch anatomist. Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan (1896–1981), Irish-American pathologist. Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839-1902), German otolaryngologist. Koch's triangle – German pathologist Walter Koch. Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn. Krause's end-bulbs ...
Haruguchi classification. Hawkin's classification. Herbert classification. Herscovici classification. Ideberg classification. Jupiter and Mehne classification. Lauge-Hansen classification. Le Fort fracture of skull. Loder classification.
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