Nursing Students CNA/MA
Published Jun 1, 2015
mvaughan5521
1 Post
What are some medical terms that are named after a person or place?
Cakelady1
101 Posts
Mainly, I think of conditions that are named after the people who first discovered them or were first diagnosed with them, etc.
mvm2
1,001 Posts
Homework???
I figured. Odd, though. I never had any homework during my CNA course, unless you count going into the skills lab to practice before the state test.
I thought of that too but when someone has such an oddball short question and being their very first post it seemed that a homework assignment is likely
Oh also being she posted this bright and early monday morning it was probably an assignment due this morning where she goofed off all weekend and was hoping for good old CNAs and Nurses on AN to do it for her.
These post always seem to come out on Sunday night or Monday morning
WellThatsOod
897 Posts
I love this website and have learned so much from people on here.
However, I would not trust an Internet forum with my homework, except maybe dosage calculations because every post I've seen there no one just gives the answer, only helps with the steps.
meganec17
93 Posts
Like mentioned above, many conditions and diseases were named after the person who first discovered the illness. The first one that comes to mind in Reyes Syndrome - a condition that causes swelling of the liver and brain. Reye's Syndrome is named after Australian pathologist R. Douglas Reye, who first reported a case of it in 1963. Alzheimer's Disease was also names after its founder, Alois Alzheimer. Hope this helped!
Dogen
But this is a fun one! I don't care if I'm doing someone's homework if it's fun for me. (note: I'm a pub trivia addict)
Broca's aphasia - now known as expressive aphasia.
Broca's area
Wernicke's aphasia - now known as receptive aphasia.
Wernicke's area
Tetralogy of Fallot
Bartholin's glands
Koch's triangle
Sylvian fissure - now called the lateral fissure, and described by Bartholin
Aqueduct of Sylvius - now boringly called the cerebral aqueduct
Chadwick's sign
Goodell's sign
Circle of Willis
Loop of Henle
Bowman's capsule - sometimes called the glomerular capsule (the renaming trend doesn't seem to have caught on as strongly in the kidney yet)
Kupffer cells - my third favorite cell (after neurons and astrocytes)
Foramen of Magendie - now the median aperture (roughly an f8 if you're into that sort of thing...)
Looking back at that list it's... more specialized than I thought it would be. Before anyone asks, I dated a midwife while I was in nursing school, so a lot of her terminology stuck. Just sayin'.
Mavrick, BSN, RN
1,578 Posts
Of course it's homework!! I'll bite if it's fun for me too.
Foley catheter
Jackson-Pratt drain
Swan-Ganz thermodilution catheter
Hickman-Broviac catheter
Texas catheter
Dobbhoff enteric tube
Salem sump tube
Jones splint
Buck's traction
Mayo stand
Dakin's Solution
Indiana pouch
Lyme Disease
Munchausen Syndrome
Cesarean Section
Montazuma's Revenge