List of eponymous diseases
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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]] – [[Dagfinn Aarskog]], [[Charles Scott]]
* [[Aase-Smith syndrome]] – [[Jon Morton Aase]], [[David Weyhe Smith]]
* [[Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome]] – [[Adnan Al Abdallat]], [[S.M. Davis]], [[James Robert Farrage]]
* [[Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome]] – [[Emil Abderhalden]], [[Eduard Kauffman]], [[George Lignac]]
* [[Amyloid degeneration|Abercrombie disease]] – [[John Abercrombie]]
* [[Achard-Thiers syndrome]] – [[Emile Achard]], [[Joseph Thiers]]
* [[Verrucous carcinoma|Ackerman tumor]] – [[Lauren Ackerman]]
* [[Addison disease]] – [[Thomas Addison]]
* [[Adson-Caffey syndrome]] – [[Alfred Adson]], [[I.R. Caffey]]
* [[Agenesis of the corpus callosum|Aicardi syndrome]] – [[Jean Aicardi]]
* [[Alagille syndrome]] – [[Daniel Alagille]]
* [[Osteopetrosis|Albers-Schönberg disease]] – [[Heinrich Albers-Schönberg]]
* [[McCune-Albright syndrome|Albright syndrome]] – [[Fuller Albright]]
* [[Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease]] – [[Fuller Albright]], [[Allan Macy Butler]], [[Esther Bloomberg]]
* [[Albright-Hadorn syndrome]] – [[Fuller Albright]], [[Walter Hadorn]]
* [[Alexander disease]] – [[William Stuart Alexander]]
* [[Alpers disease]] – [[Bernard Jacob Alpers]]
* [[Alport syndrome]] – [[Arthur Cecil Alport]]
* [[Alström syndrome]] – [[Carl Henry Alström]]
* [[Alzheimer disease]] – [[Alois Alzheimer]]
* [[Adiposis dolorosa|Anders disease]] – [[James Meschter Anders]]
* [[Andersen disease]] – [[Dorothy Andersen]]
* [[Anderson-Fabry disease]] – [[William Anderson]], [[Johannes Fabry]]
* [[Angelman syndrome]] – [[Harry Angelman]]
* [[Angelucci syndrome]] – [[Arnaldo Angelucci]]
* [[Anton-Babinski syndrome]] – [[Gabriel Anton]], [[Joseph Babinski]]
* [[Apert syndrome]] – [[Eugène Apert]]
* [[Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy]] – [[François-Amilcar Aran ]], [[Guillaume Duchenne]]
* [[Armanni-Ebstein nephropathy]] – [[Luciano Armanni]], [[Wilhelm Ebstein]]
* [[Arnold-Chiari malformation]] – [[Julius Arnold]], [[Hans Chiari]]
* [[Arthus phenomenon]] – [[Nicolas Maurice Arthus]]
* [[Asherman syndrome]] – [[Joseph G. Asherman]]
* [[Asperger's syndrome|Asperger syndrome]] – [[Hans Asperger]]
* [[Avellis syndrome]] – [[Georg Avellis]]
* [[Ayerza syndrome]] – [[Abel Ayerza]]
* [[Ayerza-Arrillaga syndrome]] – [[Abel Ayerza]], [[Francisco Arrillaga]]
===B===
* [[Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia|Babington disease]] – [[Benjamin Babington]]
* [[Babinski sign]] – [[Joseph Babinski]]
* [[Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome]] – [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Alfred Fröhlich]]
* [[Babinski-Froment syndrome]] – [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Jules Froment]]
* [[Babinski-Nageotte syndrome]] – [[Joseph Babinski]], [[Jean Nageotte]]
* [[Bahima disease]]
* [[Baker cyst]] – [[William Morrant Baker]]
* Baló's disease or [[Balo concentric sclerosis]] – [[Jószef Baló]]
* [[Bamberger disease]] – [[Heinrich von Bamberger]]
* [[Bamberger-Marie disease]] – [[Eugen von Bamberger]], [[Pierre Marie]]
* [[Filariasis|Bancroft filariasis]] – [[Joseph Bancroft]]
* [[Brucellosis|Bang's disease]] – [[Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang|Bernhard Bang]]
* [[Banti disease]] – [[Guido Banti]]
* [[Bárány syndrome]] – [[Robert Bárány]]
* [[Scurvy|Barlow disease]] – [[Thomas Barlow (medicine)|Thomas Barlow]]
* [[Mitral valve prolapse|Barlow syndrome]] – [[John Barlow (medicine)|John Barlow]]
* [[Barraquer-Simons syndrome]] – [[Luis Barraquer Roviralta]], [[Arthur Simons]]
* [[Barré-Liéou syndrome]] – [[Jean Alexandre Barré]], [[Yang-Choen Liéou]]
* [[Barrett's esophagus|Barrett's ulcer]] – [[Norman Barrett]]
* [[Bart-Pumphrey syndrome]] – [[R.S. Bart]], [[R.E. Pumphrey]]
* [[Bartholin's gland|Bartholin cyst]] – [[Caspar Bartholin the Younger|Caspar Bartholin]]
* [[Bartter syndrome]] – [[Frederic Bartter]]
* [[Graves-Basedow disease|Basedow disease]] – [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]]
* [[Basedow syndrome]] – [[Karl Adolph von Basedow ]]
* [[Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome]] – [[Frank Bassen]], [[Abraham Kornzweig]]
* [[Batten disease]] – [[Frederick Batten]]
* [[Bazin disease]] – [[Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin]]
* [[Becker's muscular dystrophy|Becker muscular dystrophy]] – [[Peter Emil Becker]]
* [[Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome]] – [[John Bruce Beckwith]], [[Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann]]
* [[Behçet's disease|Behçet disease]] – [[Hulusi Behçet]]
* [[Bekhterev's disease|Bekhterev disease]] – [[Vladimir Bekhterev]]
* [[Bell palsy]] – [[Charles Bell]]
* [[Benedikt syndrome]] – [[Moritz Benedikt]]
* [[Benjamin syndrome]] – [[E. Benjamin]]
* [[IgA nephritis|Berger's disease]] – [[Jean Berger]]
* [[Bergeron disease]] – [[Etienne-Jules Bergeron]]
* [[Horner's syndrome|Bernard syndrome]] – [[Claude Bernard]]
* [[Bernard-Soulier syndrome]] – [[Jean Bernard]], [[Jean Pierre Soulier]]
* [[Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia]] – [[Martin Bernhardt]], [[Vladimir Karlovich Roth]]
* [[Bernheim syndrome]] – [[Hippolyte Bernheim]]
* [[Besnier prurigo]] – [[Ernest Henri Besnier]]
* [[Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease]] – [[Ernest Henri Besnier]], [[Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck]], [[Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann]]
* [[Biermer anaemia]] – [[Michael Anton Biermer]]
* [[Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis]] – [[Edwin Bickerstaff]]
* [[Bilharzia]] – [[Theodor Maximilian Bilharz]]
* [[Bing-Neel syndrome]] – [[Jens Bing]], [[Axel Valdemar Neel]]
* [[Binswanger's disease|Binswanger dementia]] – [[Otto Binswanger]]
* [[Bland-White-Garland syndrome]] – [[Edward Franklin Bland]], [[Paul Dudley White]], [[Joseph Garland]]
* [[Bloom syndrome]] – [[David Bloom]]
* [[Erlacher-Blount syndrome|Blount syndrome]] – [[Walter Putnam Blount]]
* [[Boerhaave's syndrome|Boerhaave syndrome]] – [[Herman Boerhaave]]
* [[Bogorad syndrome]] – [[F.A. Bogorad]]
* [[Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome]] – [[Kristine Bonnevie]], [[Otto Ullrich]]
* [[Bourneville-Pringle disease]] – [[Désiré-Magloire Bourneville]], [[John James Pringle]]
* [[Bowen's disease|Bowen disease]] – [[John T. Bowen]]
* [[Morquio syndrome|Brailsford-Morquio syndrome]] – [[James Frederick Brailsford]], [[Luís Morquio]]
* [[Brandt syndrome]] – [[Thore Edvard Brandt]]
* [[Brenner tumour]] – Fritz Brenner
* [[Brewer kidney]] – [[George Emerson Brewer]]
* [[Bright's disease|Bright disease]] – [[Richard Bright (physician)|Richard Bright]]
* [[Brill-Symmers disease]] – [[Nathan Brill]], [[Douglas Symmers]]
* [[Brill-Zinsser disease]] – [[Nathan Brill]], [[Hans Zinsser]]
* [[Briquet syndrome]] – [[Paul Briquet]]
* [[Brissaud disease]] – [[Édouard Brissaud]]
* [[Brissaud-Sicard syndrome]] – [[Édouard Brissaud]], [[Jean-Athanase Sicard]]
* [[Broadbent apoplexy]] – [[William Broadbent]]
* [[Brock syndrome]] – [[Russell Claude Brock]]
* [[Brodie abscess]] – [[Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet|Benjamin Collins Brodie]]
* [[Brodie syndrome]] – [[Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet|Benjamin Collins Brodie]]
* [[Brooke epithelioma]] – [[Henry Ambrose Grundy Brooke]]
* [[Brown-Séquard syndrome]] – [[Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard]]
* [[Brucellosis]] – [[David Bruce (microbiologist)|David Bruce]]
* [[Brugada syndrome]] – the Brugada brothers
* [[Bruns syndrome]] – [[Ludwig Bruns]]
* [[Bruton-Gitlin syndrome]] – [[Ogden Carr Bruton]], [[David Gitlin]]
* [[Budd-Chiari syndrome]] – [[George Budd]], [[Hans Chiari]]
* [[Buerger's disease|Buerger disease]] – [[Leo Buerger]]
* [[Bumpke syndrome]] – [[Oswald Conrad Edouard Bumke]]
* [[Bürger-Grütz syndrome]] – [[Max Burger]], [[Otto Grutz]]
* [[Burkitt's lymphoma|Burkitt lymphoma]] – [[Denis Parsons Burkitt]]
* [[Burnett syndrome]] – [[Charles Hoyt Burnett]]
* [[Byler disease]]
* [[Bywaters syndrome]] – [[Eric Bywaters]]
===C===
* [[Caffey-Silverman syndrome]] – [[John Patrick Caffey]], [[William Aaron Silverman]]
* [[Calvé disease]] – [[Jacques Calvé]]
* [[Canavan disease]] – [[Myrtelle Canavan]]
* [[Cannon syndrome]] – [[Walter Cannon]]
* [[Capgras delusion|Capgras syndrome]] – [[Joseph Capgras]]
* [[Caplan's syndrome]] – [[Anthony Caplan]]
* [[Caroli syndrome]] – [[J. Caroli]]
* [[Carrión's disease]] – [[Daniel Alcides Carrión]]
* [[Castleman disease]] – [[Benjamin Castleman]]
* [[Céstan-Chenais syndrome]] – [[Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan]],[[Louis Jean Chennais]]
* [[Chagas disease]] – [[Carlos Chagas]]
* [[Motor neurone disease|Charcot's disease]] – [[Jean-Martin Charcot]]
* [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]] – [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], [[Pierre Marie]], [[Howard Henry Tooth]]
* [[Barlow disease|Cheadle's disease]] – [[Walter Butler Cheadle]]
* [[Chédiak-Higashi syndrome]] – [[Alexander Chédiak]],[[Otokata Higashi]]
* [[Chiari-Frommel syndrome]] – [[Johann Baptist Chiari]],[[Richard Frommel]]
* [[Chilaiditi syndrome]] – [[Demetrius Chilaiditi]]
* [[Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome]] – [[Josef Christ]], [[Hermann Werner Siemens]], [[Albert Touraine]]
* [[Christensen-Krabbe disease]] – [[Erna Christensen]], [[Knud Krabbe]]
* [[Christmas disease]] – [[Stephen Christmas]]
* [[Churg-Strauss syndrome]] – [[Jacob Churg]], [[Lotte Straus]]
* [[Claude syndrome]] – [[Henri Claude]]
* [[Clerambault syndrome]] – [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault]]
* [[Clerambault-Kandinsky syndrome]] – [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault]], [[Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky ]]
* [[Coats disease]] – [[George Coats]]
* [[Cock peculiar tumor]] – [[Edward Cock]]
* [[Cockayne syndrome]] – [[Edward Alfred Cockayne]]
* [[Cogan's syndrome]] – [[David Glendenning Cogan]]
* [[Colles' fracture]] – [[Abraham Colles]]
* [[Collet-Sicard syndrome]] – [[Frédéric Justin Collet]], [[Jean-Athanase Sicard]]
* [[Concato disease]] – [[Luigi Maria Concato]]
* [[Conn's Syndrome]] – [[Jerome Conn]]
* [[Cooley's anemia]] – [[Thomas Benton Cooley]]
* [[Glycogen storage disease type III|Cori Disease]] – [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]]
* [[Cornelia de Lange syndrome]] – [[Cornelia Catharina de Lange]]
* [[Costen syndrome]] – [[James Bray Costen]]
* [[Crigler-Najjar syndrome]] – [[John Fielding Crigler]], [[Victor Assad Najjar]]
* [[Crocq-Cassirer syndrome]] – [[Jean Crocq]], [[Richard Cassirer]]
* [[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]] – [[Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt]], [[Alfons Maria Jakob]]
* [[Crohn's disease]] – [[Burrill Bernard Crohn]]
* [[Cronkite-Canada syndrome]] – [[L.W. Cronkite]], [[Wilma Canada]]
* [[Crouzon syndrome]] – [[Octave Crouzon]]
* [[Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease]] – [[Jean Cruveilhier]], [[Paul Clemens von Baumgarten]]
* [[Cruz disease]] – [[Osvaldo Gonçalves Cruz]]
* [[Curling's ulcer]] – [[Thomas Blizard Curling]]
* [[Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome]] – [[Hans Curschmann]], [[Frederick Batten]], [[Hans Gustav Steinhart]]
* [[Cushing's disease]] – [[Harvey Cushing]]
===D===
* [[Da Costa syndrome]] – [[Jacob Mendez Da Costa]]
* [[Dalrymple disease]] – [[John Dalrymple]]
* [[Danbolt-Closs syndrome]] – [[Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt]], [[Karl Philipp Closs]]
* [[de Quervain's disease]] – [[Fritz de Quervain]]
* [[de Quervain's thyroiditis]] – [[Fritz de Quervain]]
* [[Dejerine-Sottas disease]]
* [[Denys-Drash syndrome]]
* [[Dent's disease]]
* [[Dercum's disease]] – [[Francis Xavier Dercum]]
* [[Devic's disease]]
* [[Di Guglielmo's disease]]
* [[Donovanosis]]
* [[Down syndrome]] – [[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]] – [[Anton Ghon]]
* [[Gilbert syndrome]] – [[Augustin Nicolas Gilbert]], French gastroenterologist
* [[Graves' disease]]
* [[Graves-Basedow disease]] – [[Robert James Graves]], [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]]
* [[Grawitz tumor]] (nephrocellular carcinoma) – [[Paul Albert Grawitz]], German pathologist
* [[Guam disease]]
* [[Guillain-Barré syndrome]] – [[Georges Guillain]], [[Jean Alexandre Barré]]
* [[Gunther's disease]]
===H===
* [[Hailey-Hailey disease]]
* [[Hallervorden-Spatz disease]]
* [[Leprosy|Hansen disease]] – [[Gerhard Armauer Hansen]]
* [[Hartnup disease]]
* [[Hashimoto thyroiditis]] – [[Hakaru Hashimoto]]
* [[Heyde's syndrome]]
* [[Hirschsprung disease]] – [[Harald Hirschsprung]], Danish physician
* [[Hodgkin disease]], [[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]] – [[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]] – [[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]]– [[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]] – [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], a French neurologist
* [[Mallory-Weiss syndrome]] – G. Kenneth Mallory and [[Soma Weiss]]
* [[Mansonellosis]] – [[Sir Patrick Manson]]
* [[Marburg multiple sclerosis]] – [[Otto Marburg]]
* [[Marfan syndrome]]
* [[Marshall-Smith syndrome]] – [[Richard E. Marshall]] and [[David Weyhe Smith]]
* [[McArdle's Disease]]
* [[McCune-Albright syndrome]] – [[Donovan James McCune]] and [[Fuller Albright]]
* [[Meig's syndrome]] – [[Joe Vincent Meigs]]
* [[Ménétrier's disease]]
* [[Ménière’s disease]] – [[Prosper Meniere]]
* [[Menkes disease]]
* [[Minamata disease]] – 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]] – Dr. [[James Parkinson]]
* [[Patau syndrome]]
* [[Pelizeus-Merzbacher disease]]
* [[Peyronie's disease]] – [[François Gigot de la Peyronie]]
* [[Pick's disease]] – [[Arnold Pick]]
* [[Pickardt syndrome]]
* [[Plummer's disease]]
* [[Poland's syndrome]] – Sir [[Alfred Poland]]
* [[Pompe's disease]]
* [[Pott's disease]] – [[Percivall Pott]]
* [[Pott's Puffy Tumor]] – [[Percivall Pott]]
* [[Potter's syndrome]] – Dr. [[Edith Potter]]
* [[Prader-Willi syndrome]] – Dr. Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Dr. Heinrich Willi
* [[Prinzmetal angina]] – [[Myron Prinzmetal]]
===R===
* [[Ramsay Hunt syndrome]] – [[James Ramsay Hunt]], American neurologist
* [[Raynaud's disease]] – [[Maurice Raynaud]], French physician
* [[Refsum's disease]]
* [[Reiter's syndrome]]
* [[Rett Syndrome]] – [[Andreas Rett]], Austrian pediatrician
* [[Reye's syndrome]]
* [[Rickettsiosis]] - [[Howard Taylor Ricketts]]
* [[Riggs' disease]] – [[John M. Riggs (dentist)]]
* [[Riley-Day syndrome]]
* [[Ritter's disease]]
* [[Robles Disease]] – [[Rodolfo Robles]], Guatemalan physician
* [[Roger's disease]]
* [[Rotor syndrome]] – [[Arturo Belleza Rotor]], Filipino internist
* [[Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome]]
===S===
* [[Salmonella]] – [[Daniel Elmer Salmon]]
* [[Sandhoff's disease]]
* [[Scahmberg's disease]]
* [[Schilder's disease]]
*[[Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome]] – 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]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – Dr. [[Eugen von Hippel]]; [[Arvid Lindau|Arvid Vilhelm Lindau]], Swedish pathologist
* [[Von Recklinghausen's disease]] (* [[neurofibromatosis]])
* [[Von Willebrand's disease]] – [[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]] – [[George Hoyt Whipple]]
* [[Williams syndrome]]
* [[William Strauss disease]]
* [[Wilms' tumor]] – Dr [[Max Wilms]], a German surgeon
* [[Wilson's disease]]
* [[Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome]] – [[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]
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