Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). New discoveries are often attached to the people who made the discovery because of the nature of the history of medicine. This has produced a large number of medical eponyms:
- List of eponymous diseases
- List of eponymous fractures
- List of eponymous medical signs
- List of eponymous surgical procedures
- List of human anatomical parts named after people
- List of eponymous medical devices
- List of eponymous medical treatments
- List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
Famous quotes containing the word medical:
“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)