Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms

An alphabetical listing of eponyms (E)

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Esmarch's bandage II
Esmarch's haemostasis
Esmarch's mask
Espildora Luque's syndrome
Esterly-McKusick syndrome
Eulenburg's disease
Eustachian catheter
Eustachian cushion
Eustachian tube
Eustachian valve
Eustachianography
Evans blue
Ewald's test meal
Ewart's sign
Ewing's sarcoma
Exner's area
Exner's nerve
Exner's plexus
Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma

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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.

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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.