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 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.
- 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 surgical procedures
- List of eponymous tests
- List of human anatomical parts named after people
- List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
- List of orthopaedic eponyms
- List of eponyms in neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery
References
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Media related to Diseases and disorders named after people at Wikimedia Commons- WhoNamedIt.com, a dictionary of medical eponyms.
- MedEponyms.com, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.
