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• List of eponymous medical signs
  ...named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of '''diagnostic''' significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc. ...s Irenée Jean Abadie]] ||neurology ||[[tabes dorsalis]] || ||absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure
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• List of eponymous fractures
  ...'Fracture''' || '''Named after''' || '''Description''' || '''Mechanism of injury''' || '''Reference''' ...0170-Anterior%20Dislocation/antdislocatecorrect.htm ''Anterior Dislocation of the Shoulder''] at LearningRadiology.com
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• List of eponymous diseases
  ...cieties ([[Legionellosis|Legionnaires' disease]]). These, however, are not eponyms. ...a time when medicine lacked the tools to investigate the underlying causes of many [[syndrome]]s, the eponym was a convenient mechanism for attaching a l
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• Medical eponyms
  '''Medical eponyms''' are terms used in [[medicine]] which are named after people (and occasio ...he nature of the [[history of medicine]]. This has produced a large number of medical [[eponym]]s:
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• List of eponymous medical devices
  [[Category:Medical lists|Eponymous devices]] [[Category:Lists of eponyms|Medical devices]]
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• List of eponymous surgical procedures
  ...| Dismembered type of [[pyeloplasty]] used to treat [[Stenosis|stricture]] of the [[uretero-pelvic junction]] || [[Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging|Medcyclopaedia]]
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• List of eponymous medical treatments
  ...is Carrel]], [[Henry Drysdale Dakin]] || [[General surgery]] || Irrigation of [[wound]]s with the [[antiseptic]] ''Dakin's solution'' (no longer used) || ...author=Epley JM |title=The canalith repositioning procedure: for treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo |journal=Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg |v
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• List of Medical Eponyms Discouraged Because of Nazi Associations
  ...ons are named after people associated with the Nazis and therefore the use of alternative names for them is encouraged. *"Eponyms and the Nazi era: time to remember and time for change." Strous RD, Edelm
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• List of countries named after people
  This is a list of '''countries named after people'''. ! Country !! Source of name
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• Scientific phenomena named after people
  ...d concepts named after people''' (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see [[eponym]]. * [[Abney effect]], [[Abney's law of additivity]] — [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]]
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• List of eponymous adjectives in English
  ...mous adjective''' is an [[adjective]] which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have b Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
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• List of foods named after people
  This is a list of '''[[food]] items named after people'''. :For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[eponym]].
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• List of eponyms of stadiums in the United States
  This is a list of [[eponym]]s of [[stadium]]s in the [[United States]]. ..., Connecticut|East Hartford]], named for [[Frederick Rentschler]] (founder of [[United Technologies]], which donated the stadium site)
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• List of eponyms of airports
  This is a '''list of eponyms of airports''', including the name of the [[airport]], the location and the person after whom the airport is name ...[[Semarang]] || [[Indonesia]] || [[Achmad Yani]], a revolutionist hero of Indonesia
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• List of eponyms of stadiums
  This is a list of [[eponym]]s of [[stadium]]s. {{TOCright}} ...fitani]], [[Buenos Aires]], named for José Amalfitani (longtime president of [[Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield|Vélez Sársfield]], the football club t
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• List of lakes named after people
  This is a '''list of lakes named after people'''. It details the name of the [[lake]] or [[reservoir]], its location and [[eponym]]. | [[Lake Albert]] || || [[Uganda]]-[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] || [[Albert, Prince Consort]]
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• List of country subdivisions named after people
  ...'''list of country subdivisons named after people'''. It details the name of the [[country subdivision]] and [[eponym]]. The etymology is generally refe This is a summary from [[List of etymologies of country subdivision names]].
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• Lists of places by eponym
  These are '''lists of places by eponym''', i.e. lists grouping places named after the same person ([[eponym]]). *[[List of places named for John C. Calhoun|John C. Calhoun]]
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• List of minerals named after people
  This is a list of '''[[mineral]]s named after people'''. The chemical composition follows nam :''For other lists of [[eponym]]s (names derived from people) see [[Lists of etymologies]].''
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...eacher]]s or other leaders associated with the institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ...d as their founders. A few institutions were named by the founder in honor of a parent, child, spouse, or other close family member.
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