Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune
Related eponyms
French paediatrician, born June 13, 1926; died April 3, 1994.
Biography of Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune is remembered for his identification of the human chromosomal abnormality linked to Down's syndrome, or trisomy 21. Lejeune thus confirmed Petrus Johannes Waardenburg's (1886-1979) theory from 1932 that Down's syndrome might be the consequence of a chromosomal aberration. Down's was the first chromosomal disorder to be positively identified.
We thank Joseph Constantine for information submitted.
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.
Disclaimer:
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.
