Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms

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Sir Herman David Weber
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William James West
Thomas Wharton
Samuel Ernest Whitnall
Mary Whittaker
Daryl Sheldon Wilkinson
E. D. Williams
Thomas Willis
Clifford Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
Leslie John Witts
Edward Woakes
Paul Hamilton Wood
Cecil Charles Worster-Drought
Roger Wyburn-Mason
Isaac Burney Yeo
Thomas Young

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What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

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Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.