Bonhoeffer's symptom

Alternative eponyms

Related people

A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system.

Description

Acute, exogenous type of reaction with loss of normal muscle tone in chorea. A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system.

Bibliography

  • K. Bonhoeffer:
    Die akuten Geisteskrankheiten der Gewohnheitstrinker.
    Jena, 1901. Die Psychosen im Gefolge von akuten Infektionen, Allgemeinerkrankungen und inneren Erkrankerungen.
    In: Handbuch der Psychiatrie. Spezieller Teil, 3:1, 1-120.
    Hrsg. G. Aschaffenburg. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Wien. 1912. Die exogenen Reaktionstypen.
    Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Berlin, 1917, 58: 50-70.

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.