Items tagged “eponymous”
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Stigler's law of eponymy
Stigler's law of eponymy states simply that no discovery in science is ever named for its primary originator. There are many examples of this throughout science, including the biomedical sciences. A few, such as Job syndrome or Terry Thomas sign, were deliberately named for someone other than th...
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Dupuytren fracture
Dupuytren fracture is an eponymous name (although not widely used in the English-speaking medical world) for an injury originally described as a mid-distal fibular fracture occurring above the syndesmosis with diastasis 1 but now refers to that fracture pattern with various other injuries:
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