Lists of medical eponyms
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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
External links
- WhoNamedIt.com, a dictionary of medical eponyms.
- MedEponyms.com, a dictionary of pathology eponyms.