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."
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
- "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
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.
