Eponymous Triads
Eponymous medical triads, tetrads, and pentads: clusters of signs and symptoms aiding diagnosis and clinical teaching
Category Eponymictionary
Dieulafoy Lesion
Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.
Marie-Strümpell disease
Marie-Strümpell disease (ankylosing spondylitis): a chronic inflammatory spinal arthritis with progressive axial fusion, first described by Pierre Marie and Adolf Strümpell in the late 19th century.
A Cluster of Surgeons
Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. Fourth lithograph 'A cluster of surgeons' in 1910
Twelve Professors of Pathology
Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. Third lithograph 'Twelve Professors of Pathology' in 1910
Sixteen French doctors
Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. Second lithograph '16 French doctors' in 1906
A vivid grouping
Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. First lithograph 'a vivid grouping' in 1903
Adrien Barrère
Adrien Barrère (Adrien Baneux) (1874-1931) was a French medical caricaturist, poster artist and painter in Paris during the Belle Époque
Koplik Spots
Koplik spots are pathognomonic buccal lesions in early measles, first described by Henry Koplik in 1896, aiding pre-rash diagnosis and outbreak control.
Crohn’s disease
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting the GI tract, Crohn’s disease was first defined in 1932 but described decades earlier by Dalziel and others
Churg–Strauss syndrome
EGPA (Churg–Strauss syndrome): rare ANCA-associated vasculitis with asthma, eosinophilia, and systemic granulomatous inflammation of small vessels
Lenègre-Lev disease
Acquired fibrous degeneration of the left and right bundle branches, eventually manifesting as permanent complete atrioventricular (AV) dissociation with cardiac pauses and Adams-Stokes attacks