Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms

An alphabetical listing of eponyms (Q)

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Quain's fatty degeneration
Quain's stethometer
Queckenstedt's phenomenon
Quénu's hemorrhoidal plexus
Quénu-Murat sign
Queyrat's erythroplasia
Quick's test I
Quick's test II
Quick's test III
Quincke's achorion
Quincke's capillary pulse
Quincke's meningitis
Quincke's oedema
Quincke's position
Quincke's punction I
Quincke's punction II
Quinquaud's disease
Quinquaud's phenomenon or sign

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