Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 319
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 319 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
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Adolf Weil
Adolf Weil (1848-1916) was a German physician. Eponymous affiliation with Weil disease (1886); discovery of an alpha-amino acid known as norleucine 1913
Gladys Dick
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881 - 1963) was an American physician, pathologist and vaccinologist. Dick test (1924) in scarlet fever
Karel Wenckebach
Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864-1940) Dutch physician. Eponymously affiliated with Wenckebach block (Mobitz type I AV block).
Luigi Luciani
Luigi Luciani (1840 – 1919) was an Italian neuroscientist. discovery referring to the phenomena as ‘Luciani periods‘ (Wenckebach AV block)
Wellens Syndrome
Wellens syndrome - learn how to recognise this sign of critical LAD occlusion, with some great ECG examples from the LITFL ECG library
Sgarbossa Criteria
Myocardial infarction diagnosis in the presence of left bundle branch block (LBBB) or ventricular paced rhythm. Sgarbossa Criteria
De Quervain disease
De Quervain described chronic tenosynovitis thickening the tendon sheath of the abductor muscle of the thumb and of the extensor short muscle of the thumb.
Fritz de Quervain
Fritz de Quervain (1868 – 1940) was an Swiss surgeon. He described the chronic tendonitis that bears his name (De Quervain disease)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 318
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 318 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Howard A. Kelly
Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
John B. Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Eponymously remembered for Murphy’s Sign (...but not as you know it); Murphy's triad; Murphy's punch test and many more