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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.

ep·o·nym

(ep'ō-nim),

The name of a disease, structure, operation, or procedure, usually derived from the name of the person who discovered or described it first.

[G. epōnymos, named after]

Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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

ep·o·nym

(ep'ŏ-nim)

The name of a disease, structure, operation, or procedure, usually derived from the name of the person who first discovered or described it.
Synonym(s): eponymic (2) .

[G. epōnymos, named after]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

eponym

A name of a disease, syndrome, anatomical part, surgical instrument, etc derived from the name of the person who discovered, invented or first successfully promulgated it.

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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