Wynne-Davies Ligamentous Laxity
Wynne-Davies Ligamentous Laxity Criteria (1970) by Edinburgh orthopedic surgeon Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 - 2012)
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De-eponymising anatomical terminology
To evaluate the hypothesis that 'There is ALWAYS an alternative to the dead man's name for body parts' and create a database to facilitate the de-eponymification of anatomic terminology
Mallampati Score
The Mallampati Score is a grading system based on the visualisation of the pharyngeal structures during laryngoscopy.
Hunt-Hess Scale
Description The Hunt-Hess Scale is a graded scale used to predict the rate of mortality based solely on the clinical features seen in a patient presenting with an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Grade Characteristic Mortality Rate1,2 0 Unruptured aneurysm without symptoms…
Smith fracture
Smith fracture: Extra-articular fracture of the distal radius with associated palmar angulation of the distal fracture fragment. (1847)
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: severe unilateral periorbital headache and ophthalmoplegia resulting from a non-caseating granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus and/or superior orbital fissure.
Henry Hill Hickman Medal
The Henry Hill Hickman Medal, is awarded every three years to individuals for original work of outstanding merit in anaesthesia by the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine
Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome refers to perihepatitic adhesions between the liver capsule and under surface of the anterior abdominal wall seen on laparotomy/laparoscopy.
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Charles Bonnet syndrome: Visual hallucinations in psychologically normal elderly people and most commonly associated in individuals with visual impairment .
Kawasaki disease
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited febrile multisystem vasculitis of childhood of unknown aetiology in which coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may develop in 15% - 25% of untreated cases.
Still’s murmur
Still's Murmur ejection systolic murmur first described in 1909 by English pediatrician Sir George Frederic Still KCVO (1868 – 1941)
Capgras syndrome
Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.