Category Eponym

Max Clara

Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Bibliography. Clara, Max 1899-1966. WorldCat Identities Buttner R, Lee J. De-eponymising anatomical terminology. 2020

Jan Evangelista Purkinje

Biography Born 18 December 1787 in Libochovice, Bohemia Died 28 July 1869, Prague Medical Eponyms Anatomical eponyms Purkinje cell layer: Stratum purkinjense; Intermediate discharge layer of the cerebellar cortex Purkinje fibres: Rami subendocardialis (fasciculi atrioventricularis); Subendocardial branches In 1845, Purkinje first…

Govert Bidloo

Biography Born 12 March 1649 Died 1713 Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Fingerprints – papillary ridges (1685) Major Publications Published under Godefridum Bidloo; Govard Bidloo; Godefridi Bidloo Bidloo G. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de…

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Caspar Bartholin

Biography Born 12 February 1585 in Malmø, Scania 1610 – Doctor of Medicine. Defended thesis Paradoxa CCXL: pathologica, simiotica, diaetetica…at the University of Basel 1613 – Professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen 1624 – Professor of divinity at the University of Copenhagen;…

Joseph Paneth

Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Buttner R, Lee J. De-eponymising anatomical terminology. 2020

Camillo Golgi

Biography Born 7 July 1843 Corteno, Italy 1906 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Died 21 January 1926 in Pavia, Italy Medical Eponyms Anatomical eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Buttner R, Lee J. De-eponymising anatomical terminology. 2020…

Guido Werdnig

Guido Werdnig (1844 - 1919) was an Austrian neurologist. Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome (1891) [Hereditary motor neuropathy type 1]

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Franz Zehetmayer

Franz Zehetmayer (1813 - *1846) was an Austrian physician. Pericarditis, pericardial effusion and the genu-pectorale position