List of eponymous diseases 562259 223724505 2008-07-05T13:31:04Z Rorynic 4494533 /* C */ An '''[[Eponym|eponymous]] [[disease]]''' is one that has been named after the person who first described the condition. This usually involves publishing an article in a respected [[medical journal]]. Rarely an eponymous disease may be named after a patient (examples include [[Christmas disease]], [[Lou Gehrig's disease]], [[Hartnup disease]] and [[Mortimer's disease]]). Related disease namings include place names ([[Bornholm disease]], [[Lyme disease]], [[Ebola hemorrhagic fever]]) and even societies ([[Legionellosis|Legionnaires' disease]]). These, however, are not eponyms. Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honour: "eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard" (Merton R K, 1973). It is regarded as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself. At a time when medicine lacked the tools to investigate the underlying causes of many [[syndrome]]s, the eponym was a convenient mechanism for attaching a label to a disease. In order to freely discuss something, it must have a name. ==Punctuation== In [[1975]], the [[Canadian National Institutes of Health]] held a conference where the naming of diseases and conditions was discussed. This was reported in ''[[The Lancet]]'' (1975;1(7905):513, PMID 46972) where the conclusion was that "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder." [[Medical journal]]s, dictionaries and [[style guide]]s remain divided on this issue. ==Eponyms and alternatives== There is a trend away from the use of eponymous disease names towards a medical name that describes either the cause or the primary signs. Reasons for this include: * The name confers no information other than the historical. * There can be a Western bias to the choices. * History sometimes shows the credit should have gone to a different person. * Different countries may have different eponyms for the same disease. * Several eponyms may turn out to be the same disease (example: [[amyloid degeneration]] is also called '''Abercrombie's disease''', '''Abercrombie's syndrome''', and '''Virchow's syndrome'''). Arguments for maintaining eponyms include: * The name may be more memorable and shorter than the medical one (the latter requiring abbreviation to its [[acronym]]) * Sometimes the medical name proves to be incorrect. * The syndrome may have more than one cause, yet it remains useful to consider it as a whole. * It continues to give respect to a person who may otherwise have been forgotten. ==Alphabetical list== ===A=== * [[Aarskog-Scott syndrome]] &ndash; [[Dagfinn Aarskog]], [[Charles Scott]] * [[Aase-Smith syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jon Morton Aase]], [[David Weyhe Smith]] * [[Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome]] &ndash; [[Adnan Al Abdallat]], [[S.M. Davis]], [[James Robert Farrage]] * [[Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome]] &ndash; [[Emil Abderhalden]], [[Eduard Kauffman]], [[George Lignac]] * [[Amyloid degeneration|Abercrombie disease]] &ndash; [[John Abercrombie]] * [[Achard-Thiers syndrome]] &ndash; [[Emile Achard]], [[Joseph Thiers]] * [[Verrucous carcinoma|Ackerman tumor]] &ndash; [[Lauren Ackerman]] * [[Addison disease]] &ndash; [[Thomas Addison]] * [[Adson-Caffey syndrome]] &ndash; [[Alfred Adson]], [[I.R. Caffey]] * [[Agenesis of the corpus callosum|Aicardi syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jean Aicardi]] * [[Alagille syndrome]] &ndash; [[Daniel Alagille]] * [[Osteopetrosis|Albers-Schönberg disease]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Albers-Schönberg]] * [[McCune-Albright syndrome|Albright syndrome]] &ndash; [[Fuller Albright]] * [[Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease]] &ndash; [[Fuller Albright]], [[Allan Macy Butler]], [[Esther Bloomberg]] * [[Albright-Hadorn syndrome]] &ndash; [[Fuller Albright]], [[Walter Hadorn]] * [[Alexander disease]] &ndash; [[William Stuart Alexander]] * [[Alpers disease]] &ndash; [[Bernard Jacob Alpers]] * [[Alport syndrome]] &ndash; [[Arthur Cecil Alport]] * [[Alström syndrome]] &ndash; [[Carl Henry Alström]] * [[Alzheimer disease]] &ndash; [[Alois Alzheimer]] * [[Adiposis dolorosa|Anders disease]] &ndash; [[James Meschter Anders]] * [[Andersen disease]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Andersen]] * [[Anderson-Fabry disease]] &ndash; [[William Anderson]], [[Johannes Fabry]] * [[Angelman syndrome]] &ndash; [[Harry Angelman]] * [[Angelucci syndrome]] &ndash; [[Arnaldo Angelucci]] * [[Anton-Babinski syndrome]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Anton]], [[Joseph Babinski]] * [[Apert syndrome]] &ndash; [[Eugène Apert]] * [[Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy]] &ndash; [[François-Amilcar Aran ]], [[Guillaume Duchenne]] * [[Armanni-Ebstein nephropathy]] &ndash; [[Luciano Armanni]], [[Wilhelm Ebstein]] * [[Arnold-Chiari malformation]] &ndash; [[Julius Arnold]], [[Hans Chiari]] * [[Arthus phenomenon]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Maurice Arthus]] * [[Asherman syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joseph G. Asherman]] * [[Asperger's syndrome|Asperger syndrome]] &ndash; [[Hans Asperger]] * [[Avellis syndrome]] &ndash; [[Georg Avellis]] * [[Ayerza syndrome]] &ndash; [[Abel Ayerza]] * [[Ayerza-Arrillaga syndrome]] &ndash; [[Abel Ayerza]], [[Francisco Arrillaga]] ===B=== * [[Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia|Babington disease]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Babington]] * [[Babinski sign]] &ndash; [[Joseph Babinski]] * [[Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Alfred Fröhlich]] * [[Babinski-Froment syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Jules Froment]] * [[Babinski-Nageotte syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Jean Nageotte]] * [[Bahima disease]] * [[Baker cyst]] &ndash; [[William Morrant Baker]] * Baló's disease or [[Balo concentric sclerosis]] &ndash; [[Jószef Baló]] * [[Bamberger disease]] &ndash; [[Heinrich von Bamberger]] * [[Bamberger-Marie disease]] &ndash; [[Eugen von Bamberger]], [[Pierre Marie]] * [[Filariasis|Bancroft filariasis]] &ndash; [[Joseph Bancroft]] * [[Brucellosis|Bang's disease]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang|Bernhard Bang]] * [[Banti disease]] &ndash; [[Guido Banti]] * [[Bárány syndrome]] &ndash; [[Robert Bárány]] * [[Scurvy|Barlow disease]] &ndash; [[Thomas Barlow (medicine)|Thomas Barlow]] * [[Mitral valve prolapse|Barlow syndrome]] &ndash; [[John Barlow (medicine)|John Barlow]] * [[Barraquer-Simons syndrome]] &ndash; [[Luis Barraquer Roviralta]], [[Arthur Simons]] * [[Barré-Liéou syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jean Alexandre Barré]], [[Yang-Choen Liéou]] * [[Barrett's esophagus|Barrett's ulcer]] &ndash; [[Norman Barrett]] * [[Bart-Pumphrey syndrome]] &ndash; [[R.S. Bart]], [[R.E. Pumphrey]] * [[Bartholin's gland|Bartholin cyst]] &ndash; [[Caspar Bartholin the Younger|Caspar Bartholin]] * [[Bartter syndrome]] &ndash; [[Frederic Bartter]] * [[Graves-Basedow disease|Basedow disease]] &ndash; [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]] * [[Basedow syndrome]] &ndash; [[Karl Adolph von Basedow ]] * [[Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome]] &ndash; [[Frank Bassen]], [[Abraham Kornzweig]] * [[Batten disease]] &ndash; [[Frederick Batten]] * [[Bazin disease]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin]] * [[Becker's muscular dystrophy|Becker muscular dystrophy]] &ndash; [[Peter Emil Becker]] * [[Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome]] &ndash; [[John Bruce Beckwith]], [[Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann]] * [[Behçet's disease|Behçet disease]] &ndash; [[Hulusi Behçet]] * [[Bekhterev's disease|Bekhterev disease]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Bekhterev]] * [[Bell palsy]] &ndash; [[Charles Bell]] * [[Benedikt syndrome]] &ndash; [[Moritz Benedikt]] * [[Benjamin syndrome]] &ndash; [[E. Benjamin]] * [[IgA nephritis|Berger's disease]] &ndash; [[Jean Berger]] * [[Bergeron disease]] &ndash; [[Etienne-Jules Bergeron]] * [[Horner's syndrome|Bernard syndrome]] &ndash; [[Claude Bernard]] * [[Bernard-Soulier syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jean Bernard]], [[Jean Pierre Soulier]] * [[Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia]] &ndash; [[Martin Bernhardt]], [[Vladimir Karlovich Roth]] * [[Bernheim syndrome]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Bernheim]] * [[Besnier prurigo]] &ndash; [[Ernest Henri Besnier]] * [[Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease]] &ndash; [[Ernest Henri Besnier]], [[Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck]], [[Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann]] * [[Biermer anaemia]] &ndash; [[Michael Anton Biermer]] * [[Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis]] &ndash; [[Edwin Bickerstaff]] * [[Bilharzia]] &ndash; [[Theodor Maximilian Bilharz]] * [[Bing-Neel syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jens Bing]], [[Axel Valdemar Neel]] * [[Binswanger's disease|Binswanger dementia]] &ndash; [[Otto Binswanger]] * [[Bland-White-Garland syndrome]] &ndash; [[Edward Franklin Bland]], [[Paul Dudley White]], [[Joseph Garland]] * [[Bloom syndrome]] &ndash; [[David Bloom]] * [[Erlacher-Blount syndrome|Blount syndrome]] &ndash; [[Walter Putnam Blount]] * [[Boerhaave's syndrome|Boerhaave syndrome]] &ndash; [[Herman Boerhaave]] * [[Bogorad syndrome]] &ndash; [[F.A. Bogorad]] * [[Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome]] &ndash; [[Kristine Bonnevie]], [[Otto Ullrich]] * [[Bourneville-Pringle disease]] &ndash; [[Désiré-Magloire Bourneville]], [[John James Pringle]] * [[Bowen's disease|Bowen disease]] &ndash; [[John T. Bowen]] * [[Morquio syndrome|Brailsford-Morquio syndrome]] &ndash; [[James Frederick Brailsford]], [[Luís Morquio]] * [[Brandt syndrome]] &ndash; [[Thore Edvard Brandt]] * [[Brenner tumour]] &ndash; Fritz Brenner * [[Brewer kidney]] &ndash; [[George Emerson Brewer]] * [[Bright's disease|Bright disease]] &ndash; [[Richard Bright (physician)|Richard Bright]] * [[Brill-Symmers disease]] &ndash; [[Nathan Brill]], [[Douglas Symmers]] * [[Brill-Zinsser disease]] &ndash; [[Nathan Brill]], [[Hans Zinsser]] * [[Briquet syndrome]] &ndash; [[Paul Briquet]] * [[Brissaud disease]] &ndash; [[Édouard Brissaud]] * [[Brissaud-Sicard syndrome]] &ndash; [[Édouard Brissaud]], [[Jean-Athanase Sicard]] * [[Broadbent apoplexy]] &ndash; [[William Broadbent]] * [[Brock syndrome]] &ndash; [[Russell Claude Brock]] * [[Brodie abscess]] &ndash; [[Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet|Benjamin Collins Brodie]] * [[Brodie syndrome]] &ndash; [[Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet|Benjamin Collins Brodie]] * [[Brooke epithelioma]] &ndash; [[Henry Ambrose Grundy Brooke]] * [[Brown-Séquard syndrome]] &ndash; [[Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard]] * [[Brucellosis]] &ndash; [[David Bruce (microbiologist)|David Bruce]] * [[Brugada syndrome]] &ndash; the Brugada brothers * [[Bruns syndrome]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Bruns]] * [[Bruton-Gitlin syndrome]] &ndash; [[Ogden Carr Bruton]], [[David Gitlin]] * [[Budd-Chiari syndrome]] &ndash; [[George Budd]], [[Hans Chiari]] * [[Buerger's disease|Buerger disease]] &ndash; [[Leo Buerger]] * [[Bumpke syndrome]] &ndash; [[Oswald Conrad Edouard Bumke]] * [[Bürger-Grütz syndrome]] &ndash; [[Max Burger]], [[Otto Grutz]] * [[Burkitt's lymphoma|Burkitt lymphoma]] &ndash; [[Denis Parsons Burkitt]] * [[Burnett syndrome]] &ndash; [[Charles Hoyt Burnett]] * [[Byler disease]] * [[Bywaters syndrome]] &ndash; [[Eric Bywaters]] ===C=== * [[Caffey-Silverman syndrome]] &ndash; [[John Patrick Caffey]], [[William Aaron Silverman]] * [[Calvé disease]] &ndash; [[Jacques Calvé]] * [[Canavan disease]] &ndash; [[Myrtelle Canavan]] * [[Cannon syndrome]] &ndash; [[Walter Cannon]] * [[Capgras delusion|Capgras syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joseph Capgras]] * [[Caplan's syndrome]] &ndash; [[Anthony Caplan]] * [[Caroli syndrome]] &ndash; [[J. Caroli]] * [[Carrión's disease]] &ndash; [[Daniel Alcides Carrión]] * [[Castleman disease]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Castleman]] * [[Céstan-Chenais syndrome]] &ndash; [[Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan]],[[Louis Jean Chennais]] * [[Chagas disease]] &ndash; [[Carlos Chagas]] * [[Motor neurone disease|Charcot's disease]] &ndash; [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] * [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]] &ndash; [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], [[Pierre Marie]], [[Howard Henry Tooth]] * [[Barlow disease|Cheadle's disease]] &ndash; [[Walter Butler Cheadle]] * [[Chédiak-Higashi syndrome]] &ndash; [[Alexander Chédiak]],[[Otokata Higashi]] * [[Chiari-Frommel syndrome]] &ndash; [[Johann Baptist Chiari]],[[Richard Frommel]] * [[Chilaiditi syndrome]] &ndash; [[Demetrius Chilaiditi]] * [[Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome]] &ndash; [[Josef Christ]], [[Hermann Werner Siemens]], [[Albert Touraine]] * [[Christensen-Krabbe disease]] &ndash; [[Erna Christensen]], [[Knud Krabbe]] * [[Christmas disease]] &ndash; [[Stephen Christmas]] * [[Churg-Strauss syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jacob Churg]], [[Lotte Straus]] * [[Claude syndrome]] &ndash; [[Henri Claude]] * [[Clerambault syndrome]] &ndash; [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault]] * [[Clerambault-Kandinsky syndrome]] &ndash; [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault]], [[Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky ]] * [[Coats disease]] &ndash; [[George Coats]] * [[Cock peculiar tumor]] &ndash; [[Edward Cock]] * [[Cockayne syndrome]] &ndash; [[Edward Alfred Cockayne]] * [[Cogan's syndrome]] &ndash; [[David Glendenning Cogan]] * [[Colles' fracture]] &ndash; [[Abraham Colles]] * [[Collet-Sicard syndrome]] &ndash; [[Frédéric Justin Collet]], [[Jean-Athanase Sicard]] * [[Concato disease]] &ndash; [[Luigi Maria Concato]] * [[Conn's Syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jerome Conn]] * [[Cooley's anemia]] &ndash; [[Thomas Benton Cooley]] * [[Glycogen storage disease type III|Cori Disease]] &ndash; [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]] * [[Cornelia de Lange syndrome]] &ndash; [[Cornelia Catharina de Lange]] * [[Costen syndrome]] &ndash; [[James Bray Costen]] * [[Crigler-Najjar syndrome]] &ndash; [[John Fielding Crigler]], [[Victor Assad Najjar]] * [[Crocq-Cassirer syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jean Crocq]], [[Richard Cassirer]] * [[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]] &ndash; [[Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt]], [[Alfons Maria Jakob]] * [[Crohn's disease]] &ndash; [[Burrill Bernard Crohn]] * [[Cronkite-Canada syndrome]] &ndash; [[L.W. Cronkite]], [[Wilma Canada]] * [[Crouzon syndrome]] &ndash; [[Octave Crouzon]] * [[Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease]] &ndash; [[Jean Cruveilhier]], [[Paul Clemens von Baumgarten]] * [[Cruz disease]] &ndash; [[Osvaldo Gonçalves Cruz]] * [[Curling's ulcer]] &ndash; [[Thomas Blizard Curling]] * [[Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome]] &ndash; [[Hans Curschmann]], [[Frederick Batten]], [[Hans Gustav Steinhart]] * [[Cushing's disease]] &ndash; [[Harvey Cushing]] ===D=== * [[Da Costa syndrome]] &ndash; [[Jacob Mendez Da Costa]] * [[Dalrymple disease]] &ndash; [[John Dalrymple]] * [[Danbolt-Closs syndrome]] &ndash; [[Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt]], [[Karl Philipp Closs]] * [[de Quervain's disease]] &ndash; [[Fritz de Quervain]] * [[de Quervain's thyroiditis]] &ndash; [[Fritz de Quervain]] * [[Dejerine-Sottas disease]] * [[Denys-Drash syndrome]] * [[Dent's disease]] * [[Dercum's disease]] &ndash; [[Francis Xavier Dercum]] * [[Devic's disease]] * [[Di Guglielmo's disease]] * [[Donovanosis]] * [[Down syndrome]] &ndash; [[John Langdon Down]] * [[Dressler's syndrome]] * [[Duane syndrome]] * [[Dubin-Johnson syndrome]] * [[Duchenne muscular dystrophy]] * [[Duncan's disease]] * Duncan's syndrome[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%27s_disease] * [[Dupuytren's contracture]] * [[DiGeorge syndrome]] ===E=== * [[Eales disease]] * [[Edwards syndrome]]—[[John H. Edwards]] * [[Ehrlichiosis]] – [[Paul Ehrlich]] ===F=== * [[Fabry's disease]] * [[Fanconi anaemia]] * [[Farber's disease]] * [[Felty's syndrome]]-[[A.R. Felty]] * [[Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome]] * [[Foix-Alajouanine disease]] * [[Fournier gangrene]] * Forbe's disease (see [[Glycogen storage disease type III]]) * [[Fugate's disease]] * [[Franklin's disease]] * [[Friedreich's ataxia]] ===G=== * [[Gaucher's disease]] * [[Ghon focus]] &ndash; [[Anton Ghon]] * [[Gilbert syndrome]] &ndash; [[Augustin Nicolas Gilbert]], French gastroenterologist * [[Graves' disease]] * [[Graves-Basedow disease]] &ndash; [[Robert James Graves]], [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]] * [[Grawitz tumor]] (nephrocellular carcinoma) &ndash; [[Paul Albert Grawitz]], German pathologist * [[Guam disease]] * [[Guillain-Barré syndrome]] &ndash; [[Georges Guillain]], [[Jean Alexandre Barré]] * [[Gunther's disease]] ===H=== * [[Hailey-Hailey disease]] * [[Hallervorden-Spatz disease]] * [[Leprosy|Hansen disease]] &ndash; [[Gerhard Armauer Hansen]] * [[Hartnup disease]] * [[Hashimoto thyroiditis]] &ndash; [[Hakaru Hashimoto]] * [[Heyde's syndrome]] * [[Hirschsprung disease]] &ndash; [[Harald Hirschsprung]], Danish physician * [[Hodgkin disease]], [[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hodgkin]] * [[Horton headache]] * [[Huntington's disease]] * [[Henoch-Schönlein purpura]] ===J=== * [[Jaeken's disease]] * [[Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease]] ===K=== * [[Kahler's disease]] * [[Kanner syndrome]] – [[Leo Kanner]] (this name is rarely used now) * [[Kaposi's sarcoma|Kaposi sarcoma]] &ndash; [[Moritz Kaposi]], Hungarian dermatologist * [[Kashin-Beck disease]] * [[Kawasaki disease]] * [[Kearns-Sayre syndrome]] * [[Kenny syndrome]] * [[Keshen disease]] * [[Kienbock's disease]] * [[Kikuchi's disease]] * [[Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease]] * [[Kimura's disease]] * [[Kinsbourne's syndrome]] * [[Kjer's optic neuropathy]]&ndash; [[Poul Kjer]], Danish ophthalmologist * [[Klatskin's tumor]] * [[Klinefelter's syndrome]] * [[Klüver-Bucy syndrome]] * [[Köhler's bone disease]] * [[Korsakoff syndrome]] * [[Krabbe disease|Krabbe's disease]] * [[Kugelberg-Weland disease]] * [[King-Kopetzky syndrome]] ===L=== * [[Lackasushi]] * [[Lafora's disease]] * [[Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome|Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease]] * [[Leigh's disease]] * [[Leiner's disease]] * [[Leishmaniasis]] – [[Sir William Boog Leishman]] * [[Lenègre's disease]] * [[Lesch-Nyhan syndrome]] * [[Letterer-Siwe disease]] * [[Lev's disease]] * [[Libman-Sacks disease]] * [[Lobomycosis]] * [[Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis]] * [[Lou Gehrig's disease]] * [[Ludwig's angina]] * [[Lynch syndrome]] ===M=== * [[Machado-Joseph disease]] ([[Spinocerebellar ataxia]] type 3) * [[Motor Neurone Disease|Maladie de Charcot]], French name for [[Motor Neurone Disease]] &ndash; [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], a French neurologist * [[Mallory-Weiss syndrome]] &ndash; G. Kenneth Mallory and [[Soma Weiss]] * [[Mansonellosis]] – [[Sir Patrick Manson]] * [[Marburg multiple sclerosis]] &ndash; [[Otto Marburg]] * [[Marfan syndrome]] * [[Marshall-Smith syndrome]] &ndash; [[Richard E. Marshall]] and [[David Weyhe Smith]] * [[McArdle's Disease]] * [[McCune-Albright syndrome]] &ndash; [[Donovan James McCune]] and [[Fuller Albright]] * [[Meig's syndrome]] &ndash; [[Joe Vincent Meigs]] * [[Ménétrier's disease]] * [[Ménière’s disease]] &ndash; [[Prosper Meniere]] * [[Menkes disease]] * [[Minamata disease]] &ndash; Minamata, Japan * [[Mondor's disease]] * [[Monge's disease]] * [[Mucha-Habermann disease]] ===N=== * [[Naxos disease]] * [[Noonan syndrome]] ===O=== * [[Ondine's curse]] * [[Ormond disease]] * [[Osgood-Schlatter disease]] * Osler-Weber-Rendu ([[Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia]]) ===P=== * [[Paget's disease of bone]] (* [[Paget's disease]]) * [[Paget's disease of the breast]] (* [[Paget's disease of the nipple]]) * [[Paget's disease of the penis]] * [[Parkinson's disease]] &ndash; Dr. [[James Parkinson]] * [[Patau syndrome]] * [[Pelizeus-Merzbacher disease]] * [[Peyronie's disease]] &ndash; [[François Gigot de la Peyronie]] * [[Pick's disease]] &ndash; [[Arnold Pick]] * [[Pickardt syndrome]] * [[Plummer's disease]] * [[Poland's syndrome]] &ndash; Sir [[Alfred Poland]] * [[Pompe's disease]] * [[Pott's disease]] &ndash; [[Percivall Pott]] * [[Pott's Puffy Tumor]] &ndash; [[Percivall Pott]] * [[Potter's syndrome]] &ndash; Dr. [[Edith Potter]] * [[Prader-Willi syndrome]] &ndash; Dr. Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Dr. Heinrich Willi * [[Prinzmetal angina]] &ndash; [[Myron Prinzmetal]] ===R=== * [[Ramsay Hunt syndrome]] &ndash; [[James Ramsay Hunt]], American neurologist * [[Raynaud's disease]] &ndash; [[Maurice Raynaud]], French physician * [[Refsum's disease]] * [[Reiter's syndrome]] * [[Rett Syndrome]] &ndash; [[Andreas Rett]], Austrian pediatrician * [[Reye's syndrome]] * [[Rickettsiosis]] - [[Howard Taylor Ricketts]] * [[Riggs' disease]] &ndash; [[John M. Riggs (dentist)]] * [[Riley-Day syndrome]] * [[Ritter's disease]] * [[Robles Disease]] &ndash; [[Rodolfo Robles]], Guatemalan physician * [[Roger's disease]] * [[Rotor syndrome]] &ndash; [[Arturo Belleza Rotor]], Filipino internist * [[Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome]] ===S=== * [[Salmonella]] &ndash; [[Daniel Elmer Salmon]] * [[Sandhoff's disease]] * [[Scahmberg's disease]] * [[Schilder's disease]] *[[Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome]] &ndash; Drs. Albert Schinzel and Andreas Giedion, who first described the syndrome in a professional journal * [[Seligmann's disease]] * [[Sever's disease]] * [[Silver-Russel syndrome]] * [[Simmond's Disease]] * [[Sjogren's syndrome]] * [[Progressive supranuclear palsy|Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome]] * [[Stevens-Johnson syndrome]] * [[Sturge-Weber disease]] * [[Still's disease]] * [[Susac's syndrome]] ===T=== * [[Takayasu's arteritis]] * [[Tangier disease]] * [[Tay-Sachs disease]] * [[Theileriosis]] – [[Sir Arnold Theiler]] * [[Thomsen's disease]] * [[Tietze's syndrome]] * [[Tourette syndrome]] &ndash; [[Gilles de la Tourette|Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette]] * [[Treacher Collins syndrome]] is the common name for mandibulofacial dysostosis * [[Turcot syndrome]] * [[Turner's syndrome]] &ndash; [[Henry Turner (endocrinologist)|Henry Turner]] ===U=== * [[Unverricht-Lundborg disease]] ===V=== * [[Vincent's angina]] * [[Amyloid degeneration|Virchow's syndrome]] * [[Von Gierke's disease]] * [[Von Hippel-Lindau disease]] &ndash; Dr. [[Eugen von Hippel]]; [[Arvid Lindau|Arvid Vilhelm Lindau]], Swedish pathologist * [[Von Recklinghausen's disease]] (* [[neurofibromatosis]]) * [[Von Willebrand's disease]] &ndash; [[Erik Adolf von Willebrand]] ===W=== * [[Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia]] * [[Warkany syndrome]] ([[trisomy]]) * [[Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome]] * [[Weber-Christian disease]] * [[Wegener's granulomatosis]] * [[Weil's disease-Adolf Weil]] * [[Wells syndrome]] [[George Wells]] * [[Werner's syndrome]] * [[Wernicke's encephalopathy]] * [[Whipple's disease]] &ndash; [[George Hoyt Whipple]] * [[Williams syndrome]] * [[William Strauss disease]] * [[Wilms' tumor]] &ndash; Dr [[Max Wilms]], a German surgeon * [[Wilson's disease]] * [[Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome]] &ndash; [[Alfred Wiskott]], [[Robert Aldrich]] * [[Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease]] * [[Wolff-Parkinson-White_syndrome|Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome]] * [[Wolman disease]] ===X Y Z=== * [[Zieve's syndrome]] * [[Zollinger-Ellison syndrome]] == See also == * [[List of eponymous medical signs]] for a list of [[medicine|medical]] signs named after people. * [[List of eponyms]] for a complete list of eponyms sorted by name * [[Lists of etymologies]] * [[Syndrome]] == External links == * [http://www.whonamedit.com WhoNamedIt.com], a site dedicated to medical eponyms and their namesakes. * [http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v6p384y1983.pdf What's in a Name: The Eponymic Route to Immortality] * [http://neuroraz.blogspot.com/2007/05/bad-pronounciation.html#links The most mispronounced eponyms] <!--Categories--> <!--Other languages--> [[Category:Lists of eponyms|Diseases]] [[Category:Lists of diseases|Eponymous diseases]] [[pl:Eponimy medyczne]]