Jacqueline Hecht
Jacqueline Tauber Hecht is an American medical geneticist. Hecht-Scott syndrome - congenital limb malformation syndrome - (1981)
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Anne-Marie de Barsy
Anne-Marie de Barsy (1939 - ) Belgian neurologist. de Barsy syndrome (1968)
Bernadette Christol
Bernadette Christol (1934 - 2011) was a French dermatologist. Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome (1964)
Vivian Green-Armytage
Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage (1882–1961) was an English gynaecologist.
Margot Noack
Margot Noack (1909 - ) was a German pediatric orthopedist. Noack syndrome - Autosomal dominant craniosynostosis syndrome - (1959)
Rudolf A. Mees
Rudolf Adriaan Mees (1873-1964) was a Dutch psychiatrist and physician. Described Mees lines in acute arsenic poisoning (1919)
Pierre Adolphe Piorry
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Oven V. Piorry. Biographies des célébrités médicales, . 1867 Sakula A. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. Thorax. 1979; 34(5): 575-581.
Theodor Langhans
Biography Medical Eponyms Langhans giant cells (1868) The presence of Langhans giant cells (LGCs) is one of the signatures of systemic granulomatous disorders such as tuberculosis and sarcoidosis. Although originally described in association with tuberculosis, they are found in nearly every…
Reed-Sternberg cells
Reed–Sternberg cells: multinucleate, giant cells found in individuals with Hodgkin lymphoma. Carl Sternberg (1898) and Dorothy Reed (1902)
Georges C. Noulis
Georges C.Noulis (1849-1919). Greek surgeon credited as the first to describe testing the functional integrity of the ACL and knee ligaments (Lachman Test)
Gowers sign
Physical examination finding seen in patients with proximal weakness of the extensor muscles of the thighs and is most often associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Jacqueline Noonan
Jacqueline Anne Noonan (1921 - ) American paediatric cardiologist. Noonan syndrome (1968)