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ep·o·nym (p-nm)
n.
A name of a drug, structure, or disease based on or derived from the name of a person.
epo·nymic adj.
eponym
[ep′ənim]
Etymology: Gk, epi, above, onyma, name
a name for a disease, organ, procedure, or body function that is derived from the name of a person, usually a physician or scientist who first identified the condition or devised the object bearing the name. Examples include fallopian tube, Parkinson's disease, and Billing's method.
eponym [ep´o-nim]
a name or phrase formed from or including a person's name, such as Hodgkin's disease, Cowper's glands, or Schick test. adj., adj eponym´ic, epon´ymous.
eponym
a name or phrase formed from or including a person's name, e.g. Theiler's disease, Cowper's gland, Aschheim-Zondek test.
eponym
Medtalk A syndrome, lesion, surgical procedure or clinical sign that bears the name of the author who first described the entity, or less commonly, the name of the index Pt(s) in whom the lesion was first described
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The syndrome was described as early as 1870, but it attained its eponymic designation after Eagle categorized the syndrome into two distinct types--the classic type and the carotid artery type--in 1937.
Transcervical resection of the styloid process in Eagle syndrome by Martin, Timothy J.; Friedland, David R.; Merati, Albert L. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Dodd discounts a number of obvious eponymic subjects (though he rightly disdains the term eponym as too earnest): no cities and countries named after famous people, for example (thus no Wellington, no Washington); and no objects named after fictional characters (sadly depriving us of Dodd on the trilby, from George du Maurier's novel).
What it says on the tin by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
It was at such a point in her earlier books that Gellhorn melodramatically had Liana, in the eponymic novel, commit suicide or Rita, in The Stricken Field, sneak into a safehouse to overhear the Gestapo torturing her dissident boyfriend.
A dime store Jane Austen by Messenger, Robert / New Criterion
 
 
 
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