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

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External links[edit]

• 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.