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Alphabetical List of eponymous medical signs
by RxPG - 6529 reads, based on 4 votes
List of eponymous
medical signs
Eponymous medical signs
are
medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the
physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous
patient with the signs.
Listed alphabetically
Adson's sign
Alexander's law
Allen's sign
Allen's test
Angel's sign
Aortic regurgitation eponyms
Apley grind test
Apley scratch test
Apley's law
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Alphabetical List of Eponymous Diseases
by RxPG - 2210 reads, based on 1 vote
Addison's disease
Alders-Schonberg disease
Alexander's disease
Alice in Wonderland syndrome – Alice
Alzheimer's disease –
Alois Alzheimer
Babinski reflex or Babinski sign, common name for
Plantar reflex –
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski, French neurologist
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List of eponymous diseases by speciality
by RxPG - 1553 reads, 0 votes
A large number of
diseases
have been
named after
people. Most often, their namesakes discovered or described the
disease, while occasionally the disease is named after the first patient
described (Christmas
disease) or the place where it was first identified (Bornholm
disease).
The proliferation of
eponyms in
medicine
is partly due to the fact that until recently the exact cause of many
diseases
was a mystery. The best way to refer to a
syndrome,
then, was to refer to the person who first addressed its existence.
There is controversy over the naming conventions for eponymous diseases.
Many sources now agree that an apostroph...
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Eponyms - Z
by Andrew J. Yee, M.D. - 1865 reads, 0 votes
ZAHN, INFARCT OF
in occlusion of an intrahepatic branch of portal vein, sharply demarcated area of red-blue discoloration, not infarct, not necrosis, only marked stasis in distended sinusoids, with secondary hepatocellular atrophy
ZAHN, LINES OF
thrombi formed within a cardiac chamber or the aorta, may have apparent laminations, produced by alternating layers of paler platelets admixed with some fibrin, separated by darker layers containing more red cells
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Eponyms - U
by Andrew J. Yee, M.D. - 1264 reads, based on 2 votes
UHTHOFF'S PHENOMENON
in multiple sclerosis, sensitivity of symptoms to changes in body temperature or exercise (e.g., visual loss with exercise); initial description in 1890 amblyopia following exercise
UNHAPPY TRIAD
lateral knee injury resulting in ACL tear, MCL tear, and medial meniscal injury
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