Medicine:Lists of medical eponyms

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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

  1. "Classification and nomenclature of morphological defects". Lancet 1 (7905): 513. March 1975. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92847-0. PMID 46972. 

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