List of human anatomical parts named after people Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.
- Achilles' tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
- Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
- Alcock's canal (pudendal canal)
- Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
- Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
- Artery of Adamkiewicz
- Auerbach's plexus
- Bachmann's bundle
- Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
- Batson's plexus
- Betz cells
- Billroth's cords
- Bowman's capsule – Sir William Bowman
- Broca's area – Paul Pierre Broca
- Brunner's glands
- Buck's fascia
- Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr
- Calot's triangle
- Canals of Hering
- Canals of Lambert
- Cantlie's line
- Carabelli's tubercle
- Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms
- Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
- Colles' fascia
- Cooper's hernia
- Cooper's iliopectineal ligament
- Cooper's ligaments
- Cowper's glands – William Cowper
- Crypts of Lieberkühn
- Crypts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
- Darwin's tubercle
- Denonvillier's fascia
- Douglas' Pouch – James Douglas
- Duct of Santorini
- Duct of Wirsung
- Ducts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
- Edinger-Westphal nucleus
- Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi
- Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio
- Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
- Foramen of Winslow
- Foramina of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
- Foramina of Monro
- Fossa of Geraldi
- Gallaudet's fascia
- Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
- Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre N. Gerdy
- Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
- Glands of Montgomery
- Glisson's capsule
- Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
- Great vein of Galen
- Hasner's Fold – Joseph R. Hasner
- Hering's nerve
- Herring bodies
- Heschl's gyri
- Hesselbach's triangle
- Houston's muscle – John Houston
- Hydatids of Morgagni
- Islets of Langerhans – Paul Langerhans
- Kerckring's valves
- Kernohan notch
- Kiesselbach's plexus
- Krause's end-bulbs
- Kupffer cells
- Lacunae of Morgagni
- Langer's lines
- Langhans giant cell
- Ligament of Trietz
- Lissauer's tract
- Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
- Lovibond's angle
- Lund's node
- Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
- McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
- Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
- Meckel's cartilage
- Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
- Meissner corpuscles – Georg Meissner
- Meissner's plexus
- Meyer's loop
- Moll's gland – Jacob A. Moll
- Morgagni's hernia
- Morrison's pouch
- Müllerian ducts
- Nucleus of Onufrowicz
- Paneth cells
- Papez circuit
- Peyer's patches – Johann K. Peyer
- Pores of Kohn
- Pouch of Douglas
- Poupart's ligament
- Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
- Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
- Rathke's pouch
- Reed-Sternberg cell – Dorothy Reed, Carl von Sternberg or George M. Sternberg
- Reichert cartilage
- Renal columns of Bertin
- Renshaw cells
- Richter's hernia
- Riedel's lobe
- Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
- Rolandic fissure; fissure of Rolando
- Rotter's lymph nodes
- Ruffini's corpuscles
- Schatzki's ring
- Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside who had distinctive whiskers
- Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
- Space of Disse
- Space of Retzius
- Sphincter of Oddi
- Spigelian hernia
- Spiral valves of Heister
- Stensen's duct
- Sylvian aqueduct
- Thorel's pathway
- Traube's space
- Urethral glands of Littré
- Veins of Mayo
- Veins of Retzius
- Virchow-Robin spaces
- Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
- Von Ebner's gland – A. G. von Ebner
- Waldeyer's throat
- Wenckebach's bundle
- Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
- Wharton's duct
- Wharton's jelly
- White lines of Toldt
- Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
- Wormian bones – Ole Worm
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