Riccardo Galeazzi
Riccardo Galeazzi (1866-1952) was a pioneering Italian orthopaedic surgeon. The eponymous Galeazzi fracture is named after him.
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Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) revolutionized medicine with the discovery of blood groups and the Rh factor, laying the foundation for modern transfusion and immunology.
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator
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.
Barrett’s oesophagus
Barrett’s oesophagus: reflux-driven columnar metaplasia of the distal oesophagus and precursor to adenocarcinoma—history, key figures, diagnosis, management
James Douglas
James Douglas (1675 - 1742) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. Pouch of Douglas; folds of Douglas; and line of Douglas
Gilbert Dalldorf
Biography Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography
Wladimir Bechterew
Biography There are only two persons who know the anatomy of the brain perfectly – God and Bekhterev. Friedrich Kopsch Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Bell's palsy
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was an English neurologist. Responsible for developing the modern concept of epilepsy. Multiple eponyms
Rutherford Morison
James Rutherford Morison (1853 - 1939) was an English surgeon. Pouch of Rutherford Morison* (1894) BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste