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 epo...

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Autores principales: Ferguson, Robert P., Thomas, Deborah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Brief Historical Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147644
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.25046
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description 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 and cultures, and evolve as more is known about the physician or the disease.
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spelling pubmed-41201372014-08-21 Medical eponyms Ferguson, Robert P. Thomas, Deborah J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Brief Historical Perspective 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 and cultures, and evolve as more is known about the physician or the disease. Co-Action Publishing 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4120137/ /pubmed/25147644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.25046 Text en © 2014 Robert P. Ferguson and Deborah Thomas http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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