- Emil Zuckerkandl
Emil Zuckerkandl (
September 1 1849 in Raab,Hungary –May 28 1910 inVienna ) was a Hungarian-Austriananatomist . He was educated at theUniversity of Vienna (M.D. , 1874) and was an admiring student ofJosef Hyrtl .cite journal |author=Mirilas P, Skandalakis JE |title=Zuckerkandl's tubercle: Hannibal ad Portas |journal=J. Am. Coll. Surg. |volume=196 |issue=5 |pages=796–801 |year=2003 |pmid=12742214 |doi=10.1016/S1072-7515(02)01831-8 |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1072-7515(02)01831-8] In 1875 he becameprivat-docent of anatomy at theUniversity of Utrecht , and he was appointedassistant professor at the University of Vienna in 1879, being madeprofessor at Graz in 1882. Since 1888 he has been professor of descriptive and topographical anatomy at the University of Vienna.Zuckerkandl has contributed many monographs to medical journals. Among his works the following may be mentioned: "Zur Morphologie des Gesichtschädels" (
Stuttgart , 1877); "Über eine Bisher noch Nicht Beschriebene Drüse der Regio Suprahyoidea" (ib. 1879); "Über das Riechcentrum" (ib. 1887); and "Normale und Pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und Ihrer Pneumatischen Anhänge" (Vienna , 1892).Eponyms
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Zuckerkandl's bodies (1901)
*Zuckerkandl's convolution
*Zuckerkandl's dehiscence
*Zuckerkandl's fascia (1883)
*Zuckerkandl's tubercle (1902)Bibliography
* Pagel, J. L., "Biog. Lex."
References
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Isidore Singer ,Frederick T. Haneman
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