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appendicitis. epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point. Abadie's sign. Jean Marie Charles Abadie. endocrinology. Graves' disease. levator palpebrae superioris spasm. Abadie's symptom. Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie.
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;
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 ...
Category: Eponymous diseases. 7 languages. Azərbaycanca; ... Diseases named after patients (2 P) Down syndrome (3 C, 16 P) E. Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (1 C ...
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.
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.
List of fictional diseases, diseases found only in works of fiction. Airborne disease, a disease that spreads through the air. Contagious disease, a subset of infectious diseases. Cryptogenic disease, a disease whose cause is currently unknown. Disseminated disease, a disease that is spread throughout the body.
Tallerman–Sheffield treatment. Lewis A. Tallerman and Evelyn Sheffield. Rheumatism, pain. Treatment of pain through baking patients alive. Wagner–Jauregg treatment. Julius Wagner Jauregg. Infectious diseases. Treatment of general paresis of the insane by infecting the patient with malaria.