Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms

An alphabetical listing of eponyms (U)

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Uhl's anomaly
Uhthoff's symptom
Ullrich's syndrome
Ullrich-Feichtiger syndrome
Unna's disease
Unna's paste
Unna's stain
Unna's zinc boot
Unna-Pappenheim stain
Unna-Politzer naevus
Unna-Thost syndrome
Unterberger's test
Unverricht's disease
Unverricht's fistula
Urbach-Königstein method
Urbach-Wiethe disease
Usher's syndrome
Ustinov's time syndrome

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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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