Neumann's cells (Franz Ernst Christian Neumann)
Related people
Nucleated, stained cells in the bone marrow in which red blood corpuscles originate.
Bibliography
- E. Neumann:
Ueber die bedeutung des Knochenmarkes für die Blutbildung. Vorläufige Mitteilung.
Centralblatt für die medicinischen Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1868, 6: 689.
Ueber die bedeutung des Knochenmarkes für die Blutbildung. Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Blutkörperchen.
[Ernst Leberecht Wagners] Archiv der Heilkunde, Leipzig, 1869, 10: 68-102.
Independently of Giulio Bizzozero, Neumann showed that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.
- G. Bizzozero:
Sulla funzione ematopoietici del midollo delle oss.
R. C. R. Ist. Lomb Sci Lett, 1868, 2. series, 1: 815-818.
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.