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Leonard Erskine Hill

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 - 1952) was an English physiologist. Remembered for Hill's sign first described in 1909

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Anton syndrome

Anton syndrome: Visual anosognosia or Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare neurological condition related to cortical blindness. The patients deny their blindness and affirm adamantly that they are capable of seeing.

Heerfordt syndrome

Heerfordt syndrome: a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis characterized by the presence of fever, facial nerve palsy, parotid gland enlargement, anterior uveitis, and low grade fever

Odentophagia

Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir 'Odentophagia'

H Kirk Watson

Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…