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What are some medical terms that are named after a person or place?

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Mainly, I think of conditions that are named after the people who first discovered them or were first diagnosed with them, etc.

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Homework???

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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.

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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

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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.:sniff:

These post always seem to come out on Sunday night or Monday morning

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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.

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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!

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Specializes in Behavioral Health.

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'.

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

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

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