eponyms — ep·o·nym || epəʊnɪm n. person whose name is used as the name of a place or thing; medical name of a disease derived from a person s name; ancient official whose name was used to indicate the year he was in office … English contemporary dictionary
List of eponyms — An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back formed from eponymous , from the Greek eponymos meaning giving name . NOTOC Here is a list of eponyms:A B C D E F G H I–J K L–ZA* Achilles,… … Wikipedia
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Mesmerism — , MESMERIZE Franz Anton Mesmer, born in Germany on May 23, 1733, studied for the priesthood, then law. Finally he took up the study of medicine and became a serious student at the University of Vienna. He ultimately became a faculty member… … Dictionary of eponyms
Pap Smear — The Pap test, a stain analysis technique for identifying atypical cells and malignancy in cervical tissue smears, was the invention of George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883 1962). In the test he devised, a small spatula is inserted into the… … Dictionary of eponyms
Fallopian Tubes — The anatomist who discovered the function of the tubes that carry ova from the ovaries to the uterus, and for whom the tubes were named, was Gabriel Fallopius (1523 1562). The oviducts found in female mammals, including human beings, is a… … Dictionary of eponyms
Malpighian — Marcello Malpighi (1628 1694), an Italian physician, anatomist, and physiologist, was a great scientist who is not well known outside the field of medicine. Born at Crevalore, near Bologna, the eldest of eight children, he was orphaned at… … Dictionary of eponyms
Brill — Abraham Arden Brill (1874 1948) was born in Austria but came to the United States at an early age. He studied medicine at Columbia University and received his M.D. degree in 1903. Brill pursued his interest in psychoanalysis during his… … Dictionary of eponyms
Curie — Pierre and Marie Curie deserve a place in the scientific heavens. They refused to patent their inventions or receive any money from them. Their interest was in pure science and the good that could come to people from it, pro bono publico.… … Dictionary of eponyms
Curium — Pierre and Marie Curie deserve a place in the scientific heavens. They refused to patent their inventions or receive any money from them. Their interest was in pure science and the good that could come to people from it, pro bono publico.… … Dictionary of eponyms
