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Dieulafoy Lesion
  • Mike Cadogan
  • August 21, 2025

Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.

  • EponymictionaryGastroenterologyGeneral Surgery
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Georges Dieulafoy
  • Fergus Brown and Mike Cadogan
  • October 4, 2025

Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911), French physician, pioneer of gastroenterology; remembered for Dieulafoy lesion, triad(s), and aspirator

  • EponymGastroenterology
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Eugen von Bamberger
  • Mike Cadogan
  • September 29, 2025

Eugen von Bamberger (1858–1921), Austrian internist; co-described Marie–Bamberger syndrome (hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy); pioneer of clinical diagnostics.

  • EponymRespiratory
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Robert Todd
  • Kuroush Ardeshirian and Mike Cadogan
  • August 1, 2025

Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician. Provided early depictions of migraine, peripheral neuritis, and postepileptic paralysis (Todd's palsy). He also gave an important discourse on locomotor ataxy (tabes dorsalis).

  • EponymNeurology
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Marie-Strümpell disease
  • Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

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.

  • EponymictionaryRheumatology
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Sylvester McGinn
  • Bradley Ryan and Mike Cadogan
  • July 2, 2025

Sylvester McGinn (1904–1984); American cardiologist; McGinn-White sign (S1Q3T3) in pulmonary embolism; pioneer in Boston cardiac care and research.

  • CardiologyEponym
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795-1873) 680
Moritz Romberg
  • Kuroush Ardeshirian and Mike Cadogan
  • August 2, 2025

Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795–1873) a founder of clinical neurology, Romberg’s sign, Parry–Romberg syndrome and Howship–Romberg sign

  • EponymNeurology
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A Cluster of Surgeons
  • Nicolas Peschanski and Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

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

  • Eponymictionary
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Twelve Professors of Pathology
  • Nicolas Peschanski and Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

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

  • Eponymictionary
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Sixteen French doctors
  • Nicolas Peschanski and Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. Second lithograph '16 French doctors' in 1906

  • Eponymictionary
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A vivid grouping
  • Nicolas Peschanski and Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. First lithograph 'a vivid grouping' in 1903

  • Eponymictionary
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Adrien Barrère
  • Nicolas Peschanski and Mike Cadogan
  • July 13, 2025

Adrien Barrère (Adrien Baneux) (1874-1931) was a French medical caricaturist, poster artist and painter in Paris during the Belle Époque

  • EponymEponymictionary
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