David Glendenning Cogan (1908–1993) was an American ophthalmologist.[1]
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Cogan syndrome — Classification and external resources DiseasesDB 32705 MeSH D055952 Cogan syndrome is a rare dis … Wikipedia
Cogan syndrome — Arteritis (also referred to as vasculitis) that involves the ear. This condition is called Cogan syndrome after the American ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908 93) who first described it. Cogan syndrome features not only problems of… … Medical dictionary
Cogan oculomotor apraxia syndrome — Co·gan oc·u·lo·mo·tor aprax·ia, syndrome (koґgən) [David Glendenning Cogan, American ophthalmologist, 1908–1993] see under apraxia and syndrome … Medical dictionary
Syndrome, Cogan — A form of arteritis (also referred to as vasculitis) that involves the ear. This condition is called Cogan syndrome after the American ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908 93) who first described it. Cogan syndrome features not only… … Medical dictionary
List of eponymous diseases — An eponymous disease is one that has been named after the person who first described the condition. This usually involves publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely an eponymous disease may be named after a patient (examples… … Wikipedia
Iridocorneal endothelial syndrome — Classification and external resources DiseasesDB 32706 MeSH D057129 Iridocorneal … Wikipedia
irritative form of hallucinatory activity — A term introduced in or shortly before 1973 by the American ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908 1993) to denote a type of hallucinatory activity attributable to epileptiform (i.e. irritative ) activity within the CNS. The ensuing… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
release form of hallucinatory experience — A term introduced in or shortly before 1973 by the American ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908 1993) to denote a type of hallucinatory activity which is due to the release of perceptual material from lower regions of the brain.… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
focal hallucination — A term used to denote a hallucination that is attributable to a focal or partial epileptic seizure, as in the *irritative type of hallucinations as envisaged by the American ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908 1993). Focal… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
centripetal theory of hallucinatory activity — The name centripetal theory refers to an explanatory model of hallucinatory activity which is traditionally attributed to the German physiologist and zoologist Johannes Peter Müller (18011858). Conceptually, the centripetal theory constitutes… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
