Thomas sign
Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.
Category Eponym
James Douglas
James Douglas (1675 - 1742) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. Pouch of Douglas; folds of Douglas; and line of Douglas
Rutherford Morison
James Rutherford Morison (1853 - 1939) was an English surgeon. Pouch of Rutherford Morison* (1894) BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste
Berkeley Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865-1936) was an English General surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy's sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.
François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861-1944) was a French surgeon. Eponymously associated with Calot’s Triangle (cystohepatic triangle) (1890)
Elmer McKesson
Elmer Isaac “Ira” McKessen (1881-1935) was an inventor, physician and engineer. McKesson Intermittent ventilator, metabolor, and the nargraf
Bernhard Naunyn
Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925) was a German physician and pathologist.
Jack Barnes
John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985) was an Australian medical practitioner and toxinologist. 1964 the first specimens of the small stinger Carukia barnesi (Irukandji)
Nicholas Alders
Nicholas Alders (1904-1995) was a Hungarian born, Austrian trained, English naturalised obstetrician, gynaecologist and surgeon. Remembered for his description of Alders sign (1951)
Edward Bishop
Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Bishop Score (1964), a method to evaluate the cervix in regard to the success or failure of induction of labor.
Williams Bryan
Williams McIver Bryan, Jr (1917-2007) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. In 1955, described Bryan sign in appendicitis with gravid uterus
Jørgen Løvset
Jørgen Løvset (1896-1981) was a Norwegian professor of obstetrics and gynecology. Løvset’s Manoeuvre (1937) in the management of breech delivery