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eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician. Inventor of the Pinard horn (fetoscope) and Pinard Obstetric Palpation

Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920)

Moritz Benedikt

Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) was an Austro-Hungarian neurologist. Benedikt syndrome (1889); the criminal mind; dowsing and Darsonvalisation

George Huntington (1850-1916)

George Huntington

George Huntington (1850-1916) was an was an American physician. Described Huntington's disease (1872) at age 22 based on his family

eponym LITFL 340

Albert Hoffa

Albert Hoffa (1859-1907) was a German orthopedic surgeon. eponymously affiliated with a distal femur fracture (1888); an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890); the development of a system of massage therapy, the Hoffa system (1893); and the Hoffa fat pad

Leopold-Von-Schrötter-Ritter-von-Kristelli-1837-1908 340

Leopold Von Schrötter

Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli (1837-1908) an Austrian internal physician. He is known for his description of effort thrombosis (upper limb DVT) eponymously termed Paget-Shroetter syndrome in 1884.

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976)

Irving Stein

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976) was an American gynaecologist. remembered for his contribution to the field of infertility and eponymously for the Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934)

William Cowper

William Cowper (1666-1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist. Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid 1699 as well as defining capillaries, atherosclerosis and aortic stenosis

Ernst Weber

Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) was a was a German anatomist and physiologist. Weber law and Weber test for hearing assessment

Frederick Parkes Weber (1863-1972) 680

Frederick Weber

Biography Medical Eponyms Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome (1900) Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is a rare congenital cutaneous vascular malformation syndrome. Diagnosis is made with two of the three classic signs of localised cutaneous capillary malformations, venous abnormalities, and limb hypertrophy. Also known as…

Sir Hermann David Weber (1823-1918)

Hermann Weber

Sir Hermann David Weber (1823-1918) was a German physician. Known for his description of Weber's paralysis (Weber syndrome) in 1863

Bernhard Georg Weber (1927 – 2002) 340

Bernhard Weber

Bernhard Georg (Hardy) Weber (1927 – 2002) was a Swiss surgeon affiliated with the Danis-Weber ankle fracture classification. Medical Eponym