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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.
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 ...
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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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
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.
Bado classification; Danis–Weber classification; Denis classification; Evans-Jensen classification; Ficat classification; Frykman classification; Garden classification
cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list : Auvard's speculum: Alfred Auvard: Gynaecology: vaginal speculum [4] Luer taper, Luer lock: Hermann Wülfing Luer: General use: Fitting to ensure leak-free connection in medical fluid administration systems [5] Penrose drain: Charles Bingham Penrose: Surgery