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An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a fictional character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of a literary allusion, as ...
The Eponymictionary records historical signs, syndromes, conditions, procedures and classifications eponymously named. We review 3504 eponyms and 7921 related eponymous terms, the person behind their origin, history, accuracy, and relevance today.
1 lut 2017 · Examples include the bulging eyes of Graves disease , the shuffling gait and limited mobility of parkinsonism , and the persistent hoarseness of laryngeal paralysis, although the latter might better be described by another German word, hörenkurz, meaning to “hear shortly.”
8 gru 2017 · One of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases worldwide is still referred to as 'Parkinson's disease'. The condition is named after James Parkinson who, in 1817, described the shaking...
16 gru 2014 · The examples in the table suggest another, tripartite, taxonomy: permanent eponyms (such as scores and units of measurement), obsolete eponyms (such as Benedict’s test, Eaton’s agent), and eponyms in flux.
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.
31 lip 2014 · Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician scientist who played a major role in the identification of the disease. Under the right circumstances, a disease becomes well known through the name of this individual.
