List of eponymous diseases

An eponymous disease is a disease named after a person; usually either a patient suffering from, or the physician first identifying the disease.

Naming systems

Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honor: "Eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard." The scientific and medical communities regard it as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself.

To discuss something, it must have a name. At a time when medicine lacked tools to investigate underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient way to label a disease.

Some diseases are named after the person who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease, and Mortimer's disease. In at least one instance, Machado-Joseph disease, the eponym is derived from the surnames of the patriarchs of two families in which the condition was initially described. At least two eponymous disorders follow none of these conventions: Fregoli delusion, and Munchausen syndrome.

Related disease naming structures reference place names (Bornholm disease, Lyme disease, Ebola virus disease), and societies, as in the case of Legionnaires' disease. These, however, are not eponyms.

Punctuation

In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions. This was reported in The Lancet where the conclusion was summarized as: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder." Medical journals, dictionaries and style guides remain divided on this issue. European journals tend towards continued use the possessive, while US journals are largely discontinuing its use.

Autoeponym

An 'autoeponym' is a medical condition named in honor of an individual who was affected by or died as a result of the disease which he had described or identified. Autoeponyms use the possessive or non-possessive form, with the preference to use the non-possessive form for diseases, structures, or procedures named for the physician who first described it (e.g. Alzheimer disease), and the possessive form in cases named for the first patient described (e.g. Lou Gehrig's disease). Therefore, both patients and doctors have been the subject of autoeponyms.

Some examples of autoeponyms include:

• Huntington's disease: Dr George Huntington diagnosed himself and his father and grandfather with this autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease.
• Rickettsiosis: In 1906, Howard Taylor Ricketts discovered that the bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is carried by a tick. He injected himself with the pathogen. Ricketts died in 1909 while investigating typhus (Rickettsia prowazakii) in Mexico City.
• Thomsen's disease: An autosomal dominant myotonia of voluntary muscles described by Julius Thomsen about himself and his family members.
• Carrion's disease: Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión inoculated himself with Bartonella bacilliformis in 1885 to prove the link to this disease, characterized by "oroya fever." He is now regarded as a national hero.

Eponyms and trends

The current trend is away from the use of eponymous disease names, towards a medical name that describes either the cause or primary signs. Reasons for this include:

• The name confers no information other than historical.
• There can be a national or ethnic bias to the eponym chosen for use.
• History sometimes shows credit should have gone to a different person.
• The same eponym may be applied to different diseases, which creates confusion.
• Several eponyms may refer to the same disease (e.g., amyloid degeneration is variously called Abercrombie disease, Abercrombie syndrome, and Virchow syndrome).
• An eponym may prove invalid (e.g., Laurence–Moon–Bardet–Biedl syndrome, in which findings in the patients of Drs. Laurence and Moon were later found to differ from those of Drs. Bardet and Biedl).
• An eponym may honor an individual who has been discredited due to his associations, background, or professional conduct (e.g., Wegener's Granulomatosis is named for Friedrich Wegener, a Nazi physician).
• Eponymic usage may vary by country (e.g., sideropenic dysphagia is Plummer-Vinson syndrome in the US and Australia, Patterson-Kelly syndrome in the UK, and Waldenstrom-Kjellberg syndrome in Scandinavia).

Arguments for maintaining eponyms include:

• The name may be shorter and more memorable than the medical one (the latter requiring abbreviation to its acronym).
• Sometimes the medical name proves to be incorrect.
• The syndrome may have more than one cause, yet it remains useful to consider it as a whole.
• It continues to respect a person who may otherwise be forgotten.

Alphabetical list

Explanation of listing sequence

As described above, multiple eponyms can exist for the same disease. In these instances, each is listed individually (except as described below), followed by an in-line parenthetical entry beginning 'aka' ('also known as') that lists all alternative eponyms. This facilitates use of the list for a reader who knows a particular disease only by one of its eponyms, without the necessity of cross-linking entries.

It sometimes happens that an alternative eponym, if listed separately, would immediately alphabetically precede or succeed another entry for the same disease. There are three conventions that have been applied to these instances:

1. No separate entry appears for the alternative eponym. It is listed only in the parenthetical 'aka' entry (e.g., Aarskog syndrome appears only as a parenthetical entry to Aarskog–Scott syndrome). 
2. If eponymous names subsequent to the first are sequenced differently or the eponym is differentiated by another term (e.g., disease versus syndrome), alphabetical sequence dictates which is the linked version versus which is listed as the alternative ((e.g., Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac is the linked entry and Abderhalden–Lignac–Kaufmann is the parenthetical entry).
3. If the number of names included in the eponym varies, the linked entry is the one which includes the most individual surnames (e.g., Alpers–Huttenlocher syndrome is the linked entry for the disease also known as Alpers disease or Alpers syndrome).

A

• Aarskog–Scott syndrome (aka Aarskog syndrome) – Dagfinn Aarskog, Charles I. Scott, Jr.
• Aase–Smith syndrome (aka Aase syndrome) – Jon Morton Aase, David Weyhe Smith
• Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome – Adnan Al Abdallat, S.M. Davis, James Robert Farrage
• Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome (aka Abderhalden–Lignac–Kaufmann disease) – Emil Abderhalden, Eduard Kauffman, George Lignac
• Abercrombie disease (aka Abercrombie syndrome) – John Abercrombie
• Achard–Thiers syndrome – Emile Achard, Joseph Thiers
• Ackerman tumor – Lauren Ackerman
• Adams–Oliver syndrome – Robert Adams, William Oliver
• Adams–Stokes syndrome (aka Gerbec–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome, aka Gerbezius–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome, aka Stokes–Adams syndrome) – Robert Adams, William Stokes
• Addison disease – Thomas Addison
• Adson–Caffey syndrome – Alfred Washington Adson, I. R. Caffey
• Ahumada–Del Castillo syndrome – Juan Carlos Ahumada Sotomayor, Enrique Benjamin Del Castillo
• Aicardi syndrome – Jean Aicardi
• Aicardi–Goutières syndrome – Jean Aicardi, Francoise Goutieres
• Alagille syndrome – Daniel Alagille
• Albers–Schönberg disease – Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
• Albright disease (aka Albright hereditary osteodystrophy, aka Albright syndrome, aka McCune–Albight syndrome) – Fuller Albright
• Albright–Butler–Bloomberg disease – Fuller Albright, Allan Macy Butler, Esther Bloomberg
• Albright–Hadorn syndrome – Fuller Albright, Walter Hadorn
• Albright IV syndrome (aka Martin–Albright syndrome) – Fuller Albright
• Alexander disease – William Stuart Alexander
• Alibert–Bazin syndrome – Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Pierre–Antoine–Ernest Bazin
• Alpers–Huttenlocher syndrome (aka Alpers disease, aka Alpers syndrome) – Bernard Jacob Alpers, Peter Huttenlocher
• Alport syndrome – Arthur Cecil Alport
• Alström syndrome – Carl Henry Alström
• Alzheimer disease – Alois Alzheimer
• Anders disease – James Meschter Anders
• Andersen disease – Dorothy Andersen
• Andersen–Tawil syndrome (aka Andersen syndrome) – Ellen Andersen, Al-Rabi Tawil
• Anderson–Fabry disease – William Anderson, Johannes Fabry
• Angelman syndrome – Harry Angelman
• Angelucci syndrome – Arnaldo Angelucci
• Anton–Babinski syndrome – Gabriel Anton, Joseph Babinski
• Apert syndrome – Eugène Apert
• Aran–Duchenne disease (aka Aran–Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) – François-Amilcar Aran, Guillaume Duchenne
• Armanni–Ebstein nephropathic change – Luciano Armanni, Wilhelm Ebstein
• Arnold–Chiari malformation – Julius Arnold, Hans Chiari
• Arthus phenomenon – Nicolas Maurice Arthus
• Asherman syndrome – Joseph G. Asherman
• Asperger syndrome (aka Asperger disorder) – Hans Asperger
• Avellis syndrome – Georg Avellis
• Ayerza–Arrillaga syndrome (aka Ayerza–Arrillaga disease, aka Ayerza syndrome, aka Ayerza disease) – Abel Ayerza, Francisco Arrillaga

B

• Babesiosis – Victor Babeş
• Babington disease – Benjamin Babington
• Babinski–Fröhlich syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Alfred Fröhlich
• Babinski–Froment syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jules Froment
• Babinski–Nageotte syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jean Nageotte
• Baker cyst – William Morrant Baker
• Baller–Gerold syndrome – F Baller, N Gerold
• Baló's disease or Balo concentric sclerosis – József Mátyás Baló
• Bamberger disease – Heinrich von Bamberger
• Bamberger–Marie disease – Eugen von Bamberger, Pierre Marie,
• Bancroft filariasis – Joseph Bancroft
• Bang's disease – Bernhard Bang
• Bankart lesion – Arthur Bankart
• Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome – George A. Bannayan, Harris D. Riley, Jr., Rogelio H. A. Ruvalcaba
• Bannayan–Zonana syndrome – George A. Bannayan, Jonathan X. Zonana
• Banti's syndrome – Guido Banti
• Bárány syndrome – Robert Bárány
• Bardet–Biedl syndrome (formerly, aka Laurence–Moon–Bardet–Biedl syndrome, now deemed an invalid synonym) – Georges Bardet, Arthur Biedl
• Barlow disease – Thomas Barlow
• Barlow's syndrome – John Barlow
• Barraquer–Simons syndrome – Luis Barraquer Roviralta, Arthur Simons
• Barré–Liéou syndrome – Jean Alexandre Barré, Yang-Choen Liéou
• Barrett's ulcer – Norman Barrett
• Bart–Pumphrey syndrome – R.S. Bart, R.E. Pumphrey
• Barth syndrome – Peter Barth
• Bartholin cyst – Caspar Bartholin
• Bartter syndrome – Frederic Bartter
• Basedow disease – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Basedow syndrome – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Bassen–Kornzweig syndrome – Frank Bassen, Abraham Kornzweig
• Baastrup syndrome – Christian Ingerslev Baastrup
• Batten disease – Frederick Batten
• Bazin disease – Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin
• Becker muscular dystrophy – Peter Emil Becker
• Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome – John Bruce Beckwith, Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann
• Behçet disease – Hulusi Behçet
• Bekhterev disease – Vladimir Bekhterev
• Bell palsy – Charles Bell
• Benedikt syndrome – Moritz Benedikt
• Benjamin syndrome – Erich Benjamin
• Berardinelli–Seip congenital lipodystrophy – W Berardinelli, M Seip
• Berdon syndrome – Walter Berdon
• Berger disease – Jean Berger
• Bergeron disease – Etienne-Jules Bergeron
• Bernard syndrome – Claude Bernard
• Bernard–Soulier syndrome – Jean Bernard, Jean Pierre Soulier
• Bernhardt–Roth paraesthesia – Martin Bernhardt, Vladimir Karlovich Roth
• Bernheim syndrome – P. I. Bernheim
• Besnier prurigo – Ernest Henri Besnier
• Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease – Ernest Henri Besnier, Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann
• Biermer anaemia – Michael Anton Biermer
• Bietti crystalline dystrophy – G. Bietti
• Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis – Edwin Bickerstaff
• Bilharzia – Theodor Maximilian Bilharz
• Binder syndrome – K.H. Binder
• Bing–Horton syndrome – Paul Robert Bing, Bayard Taylor Horton
• Bing–Neel syndrome – Jens Bing, Axel Valdemar Neel
• Binswanger dementia – Otto Binswanger
• Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome – Arthur Birt, Georgina Hogg, William Dubé
• Bland–White–Garland syndrome – Edward Franklin Bland, Paul Dudley White, Joseph Garland
• Bloch–Sulzberg syndrome – Bruno Bloch, Marion Baldur Sulzberger
• Bloom syndrome – David Bloom
• Blount syndrome – Walter Putnam Blount
• Boerhaave syndrome – Herman Boerhaave
• Bogorad syndrome – F. A. Bogorad
• Bonnevie–Ullrich syndrome – Kristine Bonnevie, Otto Ullrich
• Bourneville–Pringle disease – Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, John James Pringle
• Bowen disease – John T. Bowen
• Brachman de Lange syndrome – Winfried Robert Clemens Brachmann, Cornelia Catharina de Lange
• Brailsford–Morquio syndrome – James Frederick Brailsford, Luís Morquio
• Brandt syndrome – Thore Edvard Brandt
• Brenner tumour – Fritz Brenner
• Brewer kidney – George Emerson Brewer
• Bright disease – Richard Bright
• Brill–Symmers disease – Nathan Brill, Douglas Symmers
• Brill–Zinsser disease – Nathan Brill, Hans Zinsser
• Briquet syndrome – Paul Briquet
• Brissaud disease – Édouard Brissaud
• Brissaud–Sicard syndrome – Édouard Brissaud, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Broadbent apoplexy – William Broadbent
• Brock syndrome – Russell Claude Brock
• Brodie abscess – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brodie syndrome – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brooke epithelioma – Henry Ambrose Grundy Brooke
• Brown-Séquard syndrome – Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
• Brucellosis – David Bruce
• Bruck–de Lange disease – Franz Bruck, Cornelia Catharina de Lange
• Brugada syndrome – Pedro Brugada, Josep Brugada
• Bruns syndrome – Ludwig Bruns
• Bruton–Gitlin syndrome – Ogden Carr Bruton, David Gitlin
• Budd–Chiari syndrome – George Budd, Hans Chiari
• Buerger disease – Leo Buerger
• Bumke syndrome – Oswald Conrad Edouard Bumke
• Bürger–Grütz syndrome – Max Burger, Otto Grutz
• Burkitt lymphoma – Denis Parsons Burkitt
• Burnett syndrome – Charles Hoyt Burnett
• Bywaters syndrome – Eric Bywaters

C

• Caffey–Silverman syndrome – John Patrick Caffey, William Silverman
• Calvé disease – Jacques Calvé
• Camurati–Engelmann disease – M Camurati, G Engelmann
• Canavan disease – Myrtelle Canavan
• Cannon disease – Walter Cannon
• Cantú syndrome – José María Cantú
• Capgras syndrome (aka Capgras delusion) – Joseph Capgras
• Caplan's syndrome – Anthony Caplan
• Carney complex – J. Aiden Carney
• Carney triad – J. Aiden Carney
• Carney–Stratakis syndrome – J. Aiden Carney, C. A. Stratakis
• Caroli syndrome – Jacques Caroli
• Carrión's disease – Daniel Alcides Carrión
• Castleman disease – Benjamin Castleman
• Céstan–Chenais syndrome – Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan, Louis Jean Chennais
• Chagas disease – Carlos Chagas
• Charcot's disease – Jean-Martin Charcot
• Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, Howard Henry Tooth
• Charles Bonnet syndrome – Charles Bonnet
• Cheadle's disease – Walter Butler Cheadle
• Chédiak–Higashi syndrome – Alexander Chédiak, Otokata Higashi
• Chiari malformation – Hans Chiari
• Chiari–Frommel syndrome – Johann Baptist Chiari, Richard Frommel
• Chilaiditi syndrome – Demetrius Chilaiditi
• Christ–Siemens–Touraine syndrome – Josef Christ, Hermann Werner Siemens, Albert Touraine
• Christensen–Krabbe disease – Erna Christensen, Knud Krabbe
• Christmas disease – Stephen Christmas
• Churg–Strauss syndrome – Jacob Churg, Lotte Strauss
• Claude syndrome – Henri Claude
• Claude Bernard–Horner syndrome – Claude Bernard, Johann Friedrich Horner
• Clerambault syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault
• Clerambault–Kandinsky syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky
• Coats' disease – George Coats
• Cock's peculiar tumour – Edward Cock
• Cockayne syndrome – Edward Alfred Cockayne
• Coffin–Lowry syndrome – Grange Coffin, Robert Lowry
• Coffin–Siris syndrome – Grange Coffin, Evelyn Siris
• Cogan's syndrome – David Glendenning Cogan
• Cohen syndrome – Michael Cohen
• Collet–Sicard syndrome – Frédéric Justin Collet, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Concato disease – Luigi Maria Concato
• Conn's syndrome – Jerome Conn
• Cooley's anemia – Thomas Benton Cooley
• Cori Disease – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome – Cornelia Catharina de Lange
• Costello syndrome – Jack Costello
• Costen syndrome – James Bray Costen
• Cotard's Syndrome – Jules Cotard
• Cowden syndrome –
• Crigler–Najjar syndrome – John Fielding Crigler, Victor Assad Najjar
• Crocq–Cassirer syndrome – Jean Crocq, Richard Cassirer
• Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Alfons Maria Jakob
• Crohn's disease – Burrill Bernard Crohn
• Cronkhite–Canada syndrome – L. W. Cronkhite, Wilma Canada
• Crouzon syndrome – Octave Crouzon
• Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease – Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
• Cruz disease – Osvaldo Gonçalves Cruz
• Curling's ulcer – Thomas Blizard Curling
• Curschmann–Batten–Steinert syndrome – Hans Curschmann, Frederick Batten, Hans Gustav Steinert
• Cushing's disease – Harvey Cushing
• Cushing's ulcer – Harvey Cushing

D

• Da Costa syndrome – Jacob Mendez Da Costa
• Dalrymple disease – John Dalrymple
• Danbolt–Closs syndrome – Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt, Karl Philipp Closs
• Dandy–Walker syndrome – Walter Dandy, Arthur Earl Walker
• De Clérambault syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
• de Quervain disease – Fritz de Quervain
• de Quervain thyroiditis – Fritz de Quervain
• Dejerine–Sottas disease – Joseph Jules Dejerine, Jules Sottas
• Dennie–Marfan syndrome – Charles Clayton Dennie, Antoine Marfan
• Dent disease – Charles Enrique Dent
• Denys–Drash syndrome – Pierre Denys, Allan L. Drash
• Dercum disease – Francis Xavier Dercum
• Devic disease (aka Devic syndrome) – Eugène Devic
• Diamond–Blackfan anemia – Louis Diamond, Kenneth Blackfan
• DiGeorge syndrome – Angelo DiGeorge
• Di Guglielmo disease – Giovanni di Gugliemo
• Doege–Potter syndrome – Karl W. Doege, Roy P. Potter
• Donnai–Barrow syndrome – Dian Donnai, Margaret Barrow
• Donovanosis – Charles Donovan
• Down syndrome – John Langdon Down
• Dressler syndrome – William Dressler
• Duane syndrome – Alexander Duane
• Dubin–Johnson syndrome
• Duchenne–Aran disease – Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, François-Amilcar Aran
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy – Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne
• Dukes disease – Clement Dukes
• Duncan disease (aka Duncan syndrome and Purtilo syndrome) –
• Dupuytren contracture (aka Dupuytren disease) – Baron Guillaume Dupuytren
• Duroziez disease – Paul Louis Duroziez

E

• Eales disease – Henry Eales
• Early-onset Alzheimer disease – Alois Alzheimer
• Ebstein's anomaly – Wilhelm Ebstein
• Edwards syndrome – John H. Edwards
• Ehlers–Danlos syndrome – Edvard Ehlers, Henri-Alexandre Danlos
• Ehrlichiosis – Paul Ehrlich
• Eisenmenger's syndrome – Victor Eisenmenger
• Ekbom's Syndrome – Karl-Axel Ekbom
• Emanuel syndrome – Beverly Emanuel
• Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy – Alan Eglin H. Emery, Fritz E. Dreifuss
• Erb–Duchenne palsy
• Erdheim–Chester disease – Jakob Erdheim, William Chester
• Evans syndrome – R. S. Evans
• Extramammary Paget's disease – Sir James Paget

F

• Fabry disease – Johannes Fabry
• Fanconi anemia – Guido Fanconi
• Fanconi syndrome – Guido Fanconi
• Farber disease – Sidney Farber
• Felty's syndrome – Augustus Roi Felty
• Fitz–Hugh–Curtis syndrome – Thomas Fitz-Hugh Jr, Arthur Hale Curtis
• Foix–Alajouanine syndrome – Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Fournier gangrene – Jean Alfred Fournier
• Forbes–Albright syndrome – Anne E. Forbes, Fuller Albright
• Forbe's Disease – Gilbert Burnett Forbes
• Fregoli delusion – Leopoldo Fregoli
• Friedreich's ataxia – Nikolaus Friedreich
• Fritsch–Asherman syndrome (aka Fritsch syndrome) – Heinrich Fritsch, Joseph Asherman
• Fuchs' dystrophy – Ernst Fuchs

G

• Ganser syndrome – Sigbert Ganser
• Gaucher's disease – Philippe Gaucher
• Gerbec–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome (aka Adams–Stokes syndrome, aka Stokes–Adams syndrome, aka Gerbezius–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome) – Marko Gerbec, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Robert Adams, William Stokes
• Gerbezius–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome (aka Adams–Stokes syndrome, aka Stokes–Adams syndrome, aka Gerbec–Morgagni–Adams–Stokes syndrome) – Marko Gerbec (latinized as Gerbezius), Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Robert Adams, William Stokes
• Ghon's complex – Anton Ghon
• Ghon focus – Anton Ghon
• Gilbert syndrome – Augustin Nicolas Gilbert
• Glanzmann's thrombasthenia – Eduard Glanzmann
• Goodpasture's syndrome – Ernest Goodpasture
• Goldenhar syndrome – Maurice Goldenhar
• Gorlin–Goltz syndrome – Robert J. Gorlin, Robert W. Goltz
• Gouverneur’s syndrome – French physician R. Gouverneur
• Graves' disease – Robert James Graves
• Graves–Basedow disease – Robert James Graves, Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Grawitz tumor – Paul Albert Grawitz
• Grinker myelinopathy –
• Gruber syndrome – Georg Gruber
• Guillain–Barré syndrome – Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barré
• Gunther's disease – Hans Gunther

H

• Hailey–Hailey disease – Hugh Edward Hailey, William Howard Hailey
• Hallervorden–Spatz disease – Julius Hallervorden, Hugo Spatz
• Hand–Schüller–Christian disease – Alfred Hand, Artur Schüller, Henry Asbury Christian
• Hansen's disease – Gerhard Armauer Hansen
• Hardikar Syndrome – Winita Hardikar
• Hartnup disease – Hartnup family of London, U.K.
• Hashimoto thyroiditis – Hakaru Hashimoto
• Henoch–Schönlein purpura – Eduard Heinrich Henoch, Johann Lukas Schönlein
• Heyde's syndrome – Edward C. Heyde
• Hirschsprung disease – Harald Hirschsprung
• Hodgkin disease – Thomas Hodgkin
• Horner syndrome – Johann Friedrich Horner
• Horton headache – Bayard Taylor Horton
• Huntington's disease – George Huntington
• Hurler syndrome – Gertrud Hurler
• Hurler–Scheie syndrome – Gertrud Hurler, Harold Glendon Scheie
• Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome – Jonathan Hutchinson, Hastings Gilford

I

• Illig syndrome – Ruth Illig

J

• Jaeken's disease – Jaak Jaeken
• Jakob–Creutzfeldt disease – Alfons Maria Jakob, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
• Jarvi–Nasu–Hakola disease – O. Jarvi, T. Nasu, P. Hakola
• Johanson–Blizzard syndrome – Ann Johanson, Robert M. Blizzard

K

• Kahler's disease – Otto Kahler
• Kanner syndrome – Leo Kanner
• Kaposi sarcoma – Moritz Kaposi
• Kartagener syndrome – Manes Kartagener
• Kasabach–Merritt syndrome – Haig Haigouni Kasabach, Katharine Krom Merritt
• Kashin–Beck disease – Nicolai Ivanowich Kashin, Evgeny Vladimirovich Bek
• Kawasaki disease – Tomisaku Kawasaki
• Kearns–Sayre syndrome – Thomas P. Kearns, George Pomeroy Sayre
• Kennedy's disease – William R. Kennedy
• Kennedy's syndrome – Robert Foster Kennedy
• Kenny syndrome – Frederic Marshal Kenny
• Kienbock's disease – Robert Kienböck
• Kikuchi's disease – Masahiro Kikuchi, Y.Fujimoto
• Kimmelstiel–Wilson disease – Paul Kimmelstiel, Clifford Wilson
• Kimura's disease – T. Kimura
• King–Kopetzky syndrome – P. F. King, Samuel J. Kopetzky
• Kinsbourne syndrome – Marcel Kinsbourne
• Kjer's optic neuropathy – Poul Kjer
• Klatskin's tumor – Gerald Klatskin
• Klinefelter syndrome – Harry Klinefelter
• Klüver–Bucy syndrome – Heinrich Klüver, Paul Bucy
• Köhler disease – Alban Köhler
• Korsakoff syndrome – Sergei Korsakof
• Kounis syndrome – Nicholas Kounis
• Krabbe's disease – Knud Haraldsen Krabbe
• Krukenberg tumor – Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg
• Kugelberg–Welander disease – Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander
• Kuttner's tumor –

L

• Lafora's disease – Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora
• Laurence–Moon syndrome – John Zachariah Laurence, Robert Charles Moon
• Laurence–Moon–Bardet–Biedl syndrome (aka Laurence–Moon–Biedl–Bardet syndrome, aka Laurence–Moon–Biedl syndrome) – John Zachariah Laurence, Robert Charles Moon, Georges Bardet, Arthur Biedl – all now deemed invalid constructs, see instead Bardet–Biedl syndrome
• Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé, Georg Perthes
• Leigh's disease – Denis Archibald Leigh
• Leiner syndrome – Karl Leiner, André Moussous
• Leishmaniasis – Sir William Boog Leishman
• Lejeune’s syndrome – Jérôme Lejeune
• Lemierre's syndrome – André Lemierre
• Lenègre's disease – Jean Lenègre
• Lesch–Nyhan syndrome – Michael Lesch, William Leo Nyhan
• Letterer–Siwe disease – Erich Letterer, Sture Siwe
• Lev's disease – Maurice Lev, Jean Lenègre
• Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia – Felix Lewandowsky, Wilhelm Lutz
• Libman–Sacks disease – Emanuel Libman, Benjamin Sacks
• Li–Fraumeni syndrome – Frederick Pei Li, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr.
• Lisfranc injury (aka Lisfranc dislocation, aka Lisfranc fracture) – Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin
• Listeriosis – Joseph Lister
• Lobomycosis – Jorge Lobo
• Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis – Wilhelm Löffler
• Löfgren syndrome – Sven Halvar Löfgren
• Lou Gehrig's disease – Lou Gehrig
• Lowe Syndrome – Charles Upton Lowe
• Ludwig's angina – Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig
• Lynch syndrome – Henry T. Lynch

M

• Machado–Joseph disease (aka Machado–Joseph Azorean disease, Machado disease, Joseph's disease) – named for William Machado and Antone Joseph, patriarchs of families in which it was first identified
• Marie–Foix–Alajouanine syndrome – Pierre Marie, Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Maladie de Charcot – Jean-Martin Charcot
• Mallory–Weiss syndrome – G. Kenneth Mallory, Soma Weiss
• Mansonelliasis – Sir Patrick Manson
• Marburg multiple sclerosis – Otto Marburg
• Marfan syndrome – Antoine Marfan
• Marshall syndrome – Richard E. Marshall
• Marshall–Smith–Weaver syndrome (aka Marshall–Smith syndrome, Greig syndrome) – Richard E. Marshall, David Weyhe Smith
• Martin–Albright syndrome (aka Albright IV syndrome – August E. Martin, Fuller Albright
• May–Hegglin anomaly – Richard May, Robert Hegglin
• Mazzotti reaction –
• McArdle's Disease – Brian McArdle
• McCune–Albright syndrome – Donovan James McCune, Fuller Albright
• Meckel–Gruber syndrome (aka Meckel syndrome) – Johann Meckel, Georg Gruber
• Meigs' syndrome – Joe Vincent Meigs
• Ménétrier's disease – Pierre Eugène Ménétrier
• Ménière’s disease – Prosper Ménière
• Menkes disease – John Hans Menkes
• Middleton syndrome – Stephen John Middleton
• Mikulicz's disease – Jan Mikulicz-Radecki
• Mondor's disease – Henri Mondor
• Monge's disease – Carlos Monge
• Mortimer's disease – First documented by Jonathan Hutchinson, named for his patient Mrs. Mortimer
• Moschcowitz syndrome – Eli Moschcowitz
• Mowat–Wilson syndrome – David Mowat, Meredith Wilson
• Mucha–Habermann disease –
• Munchausen syndrome – Baron Munchausen
• Munchausen syndrome by proxy – Baron Munchausen
• Myhre–Riley–Smith syndrome – S. Myhre, Harris D. Riley, Jr.

N

• Nasu–Hakola disease – T. Nasu, P. Hakola
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma – Thomas Hodgkin
• Noonan syndrome – Jacqueline Noonan

O

• Ormond's disease – John Kelso Ormond
• Osgood–Schlatter disease – Robert Bayley Osgood, Carl B. Schlatter
• Osler–Weber–Rendu syndrome – William Osler, Frederick Parkes Weber, Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu

P

• Paget's disease of bone (aka Paget's disease) – James Paget
• Paget's disease of the breast (aka Paget's disease of the nipple) – James Paget
• Paget's disease of the penis – James Paget
• Paget's disease of the vulva – James Paget
• Paget–Schroetter disease (aka Paget–Schroetter syndrome and Paget–von Schrötter disease) – James Paget, Leopold von Schrötter
• Parkinson's disease – James Parkinson
• Patau syndrome – Klaus Patau
• Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease – Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus, Ludwig Merzbacher
• Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé, Georg Perthes
• Peutz–Jeghers syndrome – Jan Peutz, Harold Jeghers
• Peyronie's disease – François Gigot de la Peyronie
• Pfaundler–Hurler syndrome – Meinhard von Pfaundler, Gertrud Hurler
• Pick's disease – Arnold Pick
• Pickardt syndrome – C. R. Pickardt
• Plummer's disease – Henry Stanley Plummer
• Plummer–Vinson syndrome (aka Kelly–Patterson syndrome, Paterson–Brown–Kelly syndrome, and Waldenstrom–Kjellberg syndrome) – Henry Stanley Plummer and Porter Paisley Vinson
• Poland's syndrome – Alfred Poland
• Pompe's disease – Johann Cassianius Pompe
• Pott's disease – Percivall Pott
• Pott's puffy tumor – Percivall Pott
• Potocki–Lupski syndrome – Lorraine Potocki, James R. Lupski
• Potocki–Shaffer syndrome – Lorraine Potocki, Lisa G. Shaffer
• Potter sequence – Edith Potter
• Prader–Willi syndrome – Andrea Prader, Heinrich Willi
• Primrose syndrome – D. A. Primrose
• Prinzmetal angina – Myron Prinzmetal
• Purtilo syndrome (aka Duncan disease and Duncan syndrome) –

Q

• Quarelli syndrome – G.Quarelli

R

• Ramsay Hunt syndrome – James Ramsay Hunt
• Ranke complex – Karl Ernst Ranke
• Raymond Céstan syndrome – Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan
• Raynaud's disease – Maurice Raynaud
• Refsum's disease – Sigvald Bernhard Refsum
• Reiter's syndrome – Hans Conrad Julius Reiter
• Rett Syndrome – Andreas Rett
• Reye's syndrome – R. Douglas Reye
• Rickettsiosis – Howard Taylor Ricketts
• Riddoch syndrome – Dr. George Riddoch
• Riedel's thyroiditis – Bernhard Riedel
• Riggs' disease – John M. Riggs (dentist)
• Riley–Day syndrome – Conrad Milton Riley, Richard Lawrence Day
• Riley–Smith syndrome – Harris D. Riley, Jr., William R. Smith
• Ritter's disease – Baron Gottfried Ritter von Rittershain
• Robles disease – Rodolfo Robles
• Roger's disease – Henri Louis Roger
• Rotor syndrome – Arturo Belleza Rotor
• Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome – Jack Herbert Rubinstein, Hooshang Taybi
• Russell–Silver syndrome – Alexander Russell, Henry Silver
• Ruvalcaba–Myhre syndrome – Rogelio H. A. Ruvalcaba, S. Myhre
• Ruvalcaba–Myhre–Smith syndrome – Rogelio H. A. Ruvalcaba, S. Myhre, David Weyhe Smith
• Ruzicka–Goerz–Anton syndrome – T. Ruzicka, G. Goerz, I. Anton-Lamprecht

S

• Saint's Triad – C.F.M. Saint
• Sandhoff disease – Konrad Sandhoff
• Schamberg's disease – Jay Frank Schamberg
• Scheie syndrome – Harold Glendon Scheie
• Scheuermann's disease – Holger Werfel Scheuermann
• Schilder's disease – Paul Ferdinand Schilder
• Schinzel–Giedion syndrome – Albert Schinzel, Andreas Giedion
• Schnitzler syndrome – Liliane Schnitzler
• Seaver Cassidy syndrome – Laurie Seaver, Suzanne Cassidy
• Seligmann's disease – Maxime Seligmann
• Sever's disease – J.W.Sever
• Shabbir syndrome – G.Shabbir
• Sheehan's syndrome – Harold Leeming Sheehan
• Shprintzen's syndrome – Robert Shprintzen
• Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome – Harry Shwachman, Martin Bodian, Louis Klein Diamond
• Silver–Russell syndrome (aka Silver–Russell dwarfism) – Henry Silver, Alexander Russell
• Simmonds' syndrome – Moritz Simmonds
• Sipple's syndrome – John H. Sipple
• Sjögren's syndrome – Henrik Sjögren
• Sjögren–Larsson syndrome – Torsten Sjögren, Tage Konrad Leopold Larsson
• Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome – David Weyhe Smith
• Stargardt disease – Karl Stargardt
• Steele–Richardson–Olszewski syndrome –
• Stevens–Johnson syndrome – Albert Mason Stevens, Frank Chambliss Johnson
• Sturge–Weber syndrome – William Allen Sturge, Frederick Parkes Weber
• Still's disease – Sir George Frederic Still
• Susac's syndrome – John Susac
• Sutton's disease – Richard Lightburn Sutton

T

• Takayasu's arteritis – Mikito Takayasu
• Tay–Sachs disease – Warren Tay, Bernard Sachs
• Theileriosis – Sir Arnold Theiler
• Thomsen's disease – Julius Thomsen
• Tietz syndrome – Walter Tietz
• Tietze's syndrome – Alexander Tietze
• Tourette syndrome – Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette
• Treacher Collins syndrome – Edward Treacher Collins
• Turcot syndrome – Jacques Turcot
• Turner's syndrome – Henry Turner

U

• Unverricht–Lundborg disease – Heinrich Unverricht, Herman Bernhard Lundborg
• Usher syndrome – Charles Usher

V

• Verner Morrison syndrome – J. V. Verner, A. B. Morrison
• Vincent's angina – Henri Vincent
• Virchow's syndrome – Rudolf Virchow
• Von Gierke's disease – Edgar von Gierke
• Von Hippel–Lindau disease – Eugen von Hippel, Arvid Vilhelm Lindau
• Von Recklinghausen's disease – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
• Von Willebrand's disease – Erik Adolf von Willebrand

W

• Waardenburg syndrome – Petrus Johannes Waardenburg
• Waldenstrom–Kjellberg syndrome – Jan G. Waldenström, S. R. Kjellberg
• Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia – Jan G. Waldenström
• Warkany syndrome 1 – Joseph Warkany
• Warkany syndrome 2 – Joseph Warkany
• Warthin's tumor – Aldred Scott Warthin
• Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome – Rupert Waterhouse, Carl Friderichsen
• Watson syndrome – G.H.Watson
• Weber–Christian disease – Frederick Parkes Weber, Henry Asbury Christian
• Wegener's granulomatosis – Friedrich Wegener (This usage is now formally discouraged by professional medical societies due to the Nazi associations of the eponymous physician.)
• Weil's disease – Adolf Weil
• Welander distal myopathy – Lisa Welander
• Wells syndrome – George Crichton Wells
• Werdnig–Hoffmann disease – Guido Werdnig, Johann Hoffmann
• Wermer's syndrome – Paul Wermer
• Werner's syndrome – Otto Werner
• Wernicke's encephalopathy – Karl Wernicke
• Westerhof syndrome – Wiete Westerhof
• Westerhof–Beemer–Cormane syndrome – Wiete Westerhof, Frederikus Antonius Beemer, R. H.Cormane
• Whipple's disease – George Hoyt Whipple
• Williams syndrome – J. C. P. Willams
• Wilms' tumor – Max Wilms
• Wilson's disease – Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
• Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome – Alfred Wiskott, Robert Aldrich
• Wohlfart–Kugelberg–Welander disease – Karl Gunnar Vilhelm Wohlfart, Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander
• Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome – Louis Wolff, John Parkinson, Paul Dudley White
• Wolman disease – Moshe Wolman

Y

• Yesudian syndrome – Paul Yesudian

Z

• Zellweger syndrome – Hans Zellweger
• Zieve's syndrome – Leslie Zieve
• Zollinger–Ellison syndrome – Robert Zollinger, Edwin Ellison
• Zenker's diverticulum

See also

• List of eponymous medical signs, a list of medical signs named after people
• List of eponyms, a complete list of eponyms sorted by name

External links

• Whonamedit?, a site dedicated to medical eponyms and their namesakes.
• MedEponyms, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.