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Medical eponyms
Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician scientist who played a major role in the identification of the disease. Under the right circumstances, a disease becomes well known through the name of this individual. There are no rules on eponym development. It may take an extraordinary period of time, be different in different languages...
متن کاملDictionary of medical eponyms
As U.S. drug control policy hardened to a prohibitionist stance in the wake of international control legislation and the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act, the female drug user remained a barely visible part of the drug scene. The hard line on drugs extended into the 1950s; it was only after the modification of national policy towards drug use during the 1960s, with an acceptance of the disease view ...
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An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. Nevertheless, some ancient medical scientists who made researches and their names were linked to medical conditions, hence become „eponyms’’ are now „anonyms”, in the sense that little is known about them. In Table I [1-12]...
متن کاملAll medical eponyms should be abandoned.
son In his article ‘‘Pas d’éponyme pour les médecins nazis’’, Dr. Halioua called for the separation of eponyms associated with Nazi physicians from the diseases which carry their names [1]. I would like to echo this appeal. In some cases the responsibility the named physician had for human rights abuses and war crimes has been made very clear, as in the case of Hans Reiter. In others the direct...
متن کاملCorrelation between the Eponyms of Medical Sciences and Mythology
The medical terms currently used are derived from a variety of sources. These terms are often derived from an eponym. Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician-scientist who played a significant role in identifying the disease or the person who first reported the disease or the area where a disease first broke out in there. Eponyms...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Neophilologica
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2450-0852,1509-1619
DOI: 10.31648/an.639