|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com 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.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Brodie's knee
Also known as:
Brodie's disease II
Associated persons:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
Description:
This term originally referred to a condition of stiff knees frequently observed in hysterical patients. The term now denotes a particular form of chronic inflammation, or chronic hypertrophic synovitis of the knee joint.
Bibliography:
- B. C. Brodie:
Pathological researches respecting the diseases of the joints.
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1813, 4: 207-277.
|
|
|
