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:
“They said I’d never get you back again.
I tell you what you’ll never really know:
all the medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
struck leaves letting go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)