List of eponymous diseases Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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 apostrophe should be used if the disease is named after the patient, and no apostrophe if the disease is named after the physician (for example, Down syndrome). However, older conventions are still commonly in use, and usage in practice is effectively random.
Eponyms by medical specialty:
- Cardiology
- Prinzmetal angina
- Dermatology
- Koplik's spots (a sign of measles)
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Endocrinology
- Graves-Basedow disease – Robert James Graves and Karl Adolph von Basedow
- Paget's disease of bone (osteitis deformans)
- Gastroenterology
- Heyde's syndrome – Dr. Edward C. Heyde
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
- Hematology
- Christmas disease
- Philadelphia chromosome
- Virchow's triad
- Von Willebrand disease – Erik Adolf von Willebrand
- Infectious disease
- Metabolic disease
- Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Wilson's disease
- Neurology
- Alzheimer's disease – Alois Alzheimer
- Guillain-Barré syndrome – Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Lou Gehrig's disease (motor neurone disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
- Parkinson's disease – Dr James Parkinson
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Oncology
- Grawitz' tumor (nephrocellular carcinoma)
- Klatskin tumor (cholangiocarcinoma)
- Paget's disease of the nipple
- Wilms' tumor
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatrics
- Rheumatology
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