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eponym a name or phrase formed from or including a person's name, e.g. Theiler's disease, Cowper's gland, Aschheim-Zondek test. |
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| The other major difference is the authors' decision to eliminate the use of possessive eponyms, which is consistent with current usage in medical dictionaries, by the American Association for Medical Transcription, and by the American Medical Association. Our obsession with geographic eponyms for a disease of worldwide distribution is best illustrated by Russian, or later red influenza or red flu, which first came to attention in November 1977, in the Soviet Union. color) Hulk, the eponym of ``The Hulk,'' is scaring off some Marvel Enterprises Inc. |
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