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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. List of eponymous diseases; List of eponymous fractures; List of eponymous medical devices; List of eponymous medical signs; List of eponymous medical treatments; List of eponymous ...
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;
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.
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.
Eponymous medical treatments are generally named after the physician or surgeon who described the treatment. Treatment Name Specialty Description Reference/External link
Any chemical substance with biological activity may be considered a drug. This list categorises drugs alphabetically and also by other categorisations. This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once.
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").
Drug nomenclature is the systematic naming of drugs, especially pharmaceutical drugs.In the majority of circumstances, drugs have 3 types of names: chemical names, the most important of which is the IUPAC name; generic or nonproprietary names, the most important of which are international nonproprietary names (INNs); and trade names, which are brand names. [1]