Eponyms are complicated, unique constructs named after people and places used in special-professional areas of science. One those specific is politics/political discourse. The main purpose this article to investigate the political discourse politicians (Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin) period from 2012 2017 reveal pragmatic potential skillful use eponyms by latter when they ran for presidency as a...

There are many different eponyms in common use in dermatology today, originating from a variety of countries worldwide. This review discusses a selection of dermatological eponyms that are linked to Japan.

There are several eponyms and descriptive terms used in Medicine and there is ongoing debate about their usefulness. Plastic Surgery perhaps has more descriptive terms, due to visible nature of the pathology and the several innovative surgical procedures described. There has never been an attempt to classify these terms. This article attempts to classify them and also briefly discusses the orig...

Eponyms are common in medicine, and neurology is not an exception. Most neurological eponyms originate from the names of those who first described a disease or pathological condition, as well as from the names of characters from the literature and mythical or biblical heroes. The article describes en block both widespread and nowadays seldom used or even forgotten neurological eponyms derived f...

Eponyms are a means of honoring individuals who have made lasting contributions to medicine. Eponyms are frequently encountered in the field of radiology, especially radiology of the digestive tract. However, the use of eponyms may fail to convey a precise meaning or definition and could result in miscommunication. Furthermore, in some instances, more than one individual may have contributed to...

The use of medical eponyms, which are medical terms named after people (e.g., Down’s syndrome), has frequently been a source of confusion for learners. Although the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization have encouraged the medical community to refrain from the use of possessive eponyms in order to reduce the misconception that the disease founders suffered fro...

Austria is one of the European countries with roughly 8.47 million people [1]. Its official language is German. It is one of the richest countries in the world. The country has developed a high standard of living and in 2011 was ranked 19th in the world for its Human Development Index [1]. Austria was the cradle of numerous scientists with international reputation. It was, and still, the birthp...

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]...

Diseases which involve the oral cavity usually derive their names from either Greek or Latin. These terms are customarily based on etiology or description of the lesion [1]. However, there are many eponyms as well. Some of these names are misnomers. The misnomers encountered in oral pathology may arise from lack of understanding of underlying etiology, pathogenesis, histopathology, and/or conce...