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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]

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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

References in periodicals archive ?

(8.) See more detailed in Georgescu, N.: "Eponymy in Marin Preda", in Academica, no.

The literary character between philosophy and life: archive of characters, themes, places

In science, though the honorific purpose for eponymy plays a much larger role, the practical purpose is exactly analogous to that in everyday life.

Though the wounded pride of frustrated potential eponyms is not to be taken lightly, in the grand scheme of things not much damage is done by eponymic inaccuracy, as long as the practical function of eponymy is not impaired.

On eponymy in economics

(3) The name thus becomes a "dummy" which is delivered in speech, enabling us once again to conclude, in this study, that the eponymy is a worldview.

Ferdinand de Saussure's theory can, however, be supported equally from the angle of eponymy as an anthropological form of language expression.

Linguistic and anthropological-cultural perspectives on eponimy: Ferdinand de Saussure and the theory of hypograms

(53) Note that, according to Socrates, Simmias himself is called "large" or "small" only by eponymy. If we pick him out as (say) "that small (man)," we use an accidental attribute to pick out someone whose nature [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]] is other than that (compare with a Kripkean nonrigid designator).

That is to say, the existence of elements such as fire and soul allow for a kind of mirroring, within the sensible world, of the eponymy relationship that standardly holds between Forms and sensibles.

The ultimate final argument

Eponymy: The specific epithet honors Paul LeCointe, who lived in

Eponymy: The specific epithet honors Eduard Poeppig, who first

Cycads of Colombia

While the original is dated to the eponymy of "the successor of Puzur-Nirah," whose name was not yet known in Anatolia, the later excerpt (line 6') mentions the new eponym (Amur-Assur), son of [Karria]), whose name had by then become known.

Notes on a new volume of old Assyrian texts

The eponymy applied to this ligament associated with the name of the researcher Terry Tanaka can be understood as a problem, since the International Anatomical Terminology (Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology, 2011), which regulates and standardizes the anatomical terms, seeks to eliminate structures named by eponyms.

Review of the Tanaka Ligament in the Temporomandibular Joint. Analyzing its Scientific Validity/Revision del Ligamento de Tanaka en la Articulacion Temporomandibular. Analizando su Validez Cientifica

During the eponymy of Ittabsi-den-Assur, the three qepu of KAV 99 (and Ma anayu, one of the addressees, as well) discover damage while examining the textiles.