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Eponyms in medical sciences: historical errors that lead to injustice
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2018 Introduction: Throughout history, eponyms have been used in medical sciences to designate anatomical structures although they do not provide any descriptive or functional information, which is equivalent to a mistake in the light of current thinking ...
Jorge Eduardo Duque-Parra +2 more
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Gebruik van persoonsnamen in de Nederlandse vaktaal van de geneeskunde
Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2017 Personal names play an important role in the medical language. Medical terms often consist of eponyms. A lot of expressions like ziekte van Basedow, ziekte van Hashimoto, syndroom van Down, Achillespees or doppleronderzoek are permanent ingredients of ...
Ewa Majewska
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Head imaging and craniometry: A historical note on a base line error [PDF]
, 1995 This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Radiography today© 1995. Figure 1 and figure 2 are not available.This journal article discusses the work of Lysholm, Reid, and von Ihering in standarding patient positioning during radiological ...
Lewis, Stephen J.
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ciliopathies are a group of genetic disorders caused by defective function of either the primary cilia (a large number) or the motile cilia (a much smaller number). These have been defined as diseases with mutations in genes encoding individual ciliary or cilia‐associated proteins.
Robert P. Erickson +1 more
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Bibliography of Secondary Sources on the History of Dermatology [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction A bibliographic record on the history of dermatology has been a project that started over 4 decades ago. It is a collection of all forms of history, ranging from dermatologic conditions, to famous dermatologists and physicians who have ...
Brenner, MD (Editor), Sarah +5 more
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The three fetal shunts: A story of wrong eponyms
Journal of Anatomy, 2020 The fetal circulatory system bypasses the lungs and liver with three shunts. The foramen ovale allows the transfer of the blood from the right to the left atrium, and the ductus arteriosus permits the transfer of the blood from the pulmonary artery to ...
F. Zampieri +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe +4 more
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Sir William Osler, M.D., C.M. [PDF]
, 2012 Sir William Osler impacted medical education and the practice of medicine like few other physicians. As a writer, he authored nearly 1500 publications and lent his name to numerous eponyms.
Maxwell, IV, MD, Pinckney J. +2 more
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Rheumatology, 2020 Giving a name to a street, school, lecture hall or hospital creates an individual space for these places and is a tribute to the person whose name is taken. In medicine, there has been a long tradition of commemorating the names of discoverers of disease
B. Nieradko-Iwanicka
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Upper Cretaceous São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil) has yielded a fragmentary but taxonomically diverse record of titanosaur sauropods, although elements from cervical series remain scarce. Here, we describe a nearly complete sauropod axis from the Vila Ventura Paleontological Area, representing an uncommon ...
Bruno A. Navarro +7 more
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