Hutchinson's triad

Related people

The combination of Hutchinson’s teeth, interstitial keratosis, and deafness due to lesions of the eight cranial nerve.

Description

Sign in syphilis congenita tarda - congenital syphilis: the combination of Hutchinson’s teeth, interstitial keratosis, and deafness due to lesions of the eight cranial nerve.

Bibliography

  • J. Hutchinson:
    On the different forms of inflammation of the eye consequent to inherited syphilis.
    Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, London, 1858, 1: 191-203, 226-244.
    Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, London, 1859, 2: 54-105.
    Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, London, 1860, 3: 258-283. New facts and opinions as to inherited syphilis.
    Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff of the London Hospital, 1865, 2: 145-204.

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.