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. This was reported in The Lancet where the conclusion was summarized as: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder."[1] New discoveries are often attached to the people who made the discovery because of the nature of the history of medicine.
- List of eponymous diseases
- List of eponymous fractures
- List of eponymous medical signs
- List of eponymous surgical procedures
- List of eponymous tests
- List of human anatomical parts named after people
- List of eponymous medical devices
- List of eponymous medical treatments
- List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
- List of orthopaedic eponyms
- List of eponyms in neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery
References
- ↑ "Classification and nomenclature of morphological defects". Lancet. 1 (7905): 513. March 1975. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92847-0. PMID 46972. S2CID 37636187.
External links
- WhoNamedIt.com Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, a dictionary of medical eponyms.
- MedEponyms.com, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.
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