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Home › Health › Anatomy › Eponymous Terms

Eponymous Terms





These are terms originally named after a person.

For example, the fallopian tube was named after Gabriele Fallopio, an Italian anatomist of the 16th century.

Such terms are being replaced with more informative names, but this takes time.

The following is a list of eponymous terms followed by modern anatomical names.

  1. Achilles reflex – plantar reflex
  2. Achilles tendon – calcaneal tendon
  3. Adam’s apple – thyroid cartilage
  4. ampulla of Vater – hepatopancreatic ampulla
  5. aqueduct of Sylvius – cerebral aqueduct
  6. Auerbach’s plexus – myenteric plexus
  7. Bartholin’s glands – greater vestibular glands
  8. Bowman’s capsule – glomerular capsule
  9. Broca’s area – motor speech area
  10. Brunner’s glands – duodenal submucosal glands
  11. bundle of His – atrioventricular bundle
  12. canal of Schlemm – scleral venous sinus
  13. Circle of Willis – cerebral arterial circle
  14. Cowper’s glands – bulbourethral glands
  15. crypts of Lieberkühn – intestinal glands
  16. duct of Santorini – accessory pancreatic duct
  17. duct of Wirsung – pancreatic duct
  18. Eustachian tube – auditory tube
  19. fallopian tube – uterine tube
  20. fissure of Rolando – central sulcus
  21. fissure of Sylvius – lateral cerebral sulcus
  22. Graafian follicle – vesicular ovarian follicle
  23. Grave’s disease – hyperthyroidism
  24. Haversian canal – central canal
  25. Haversian system – osteon
  26. Heimlich maneuver – abdominal thrust maneuver
  27. islet of Langerhans – pancreatic islet
  28. Krebs cycle – citric acid cycle
  29. Kupffer cells – stellate reticuloendothelial cells
  30. Langerhans’ cell – non-pigmented granular dendrocyte
  31. Leydig cells – interstitial cells
  32. loop of Henle – loop of the nephron
  33. Meissner’s corpuscles – tactile corpuscles
  34. Meissner’s plexus – submucosal plexus
  35. Nodes of Ranvier – neurofibral nodes
  36. organ of Corti – spiral organ
  37. Pacinian corpuscle – lamellated corpuscle
  38. Peyer’s patches – aggregated lymph nodules
  39. Purkinje fibers – cardiac conducting myofibers
  40. Schwann cell – neurolemmocyte
  41. Sertoli cells – sustentacular cells
  42. sphincter of Boyden – sphincter of the common bile duct
  43. sphincter of Oddi – sphincter of the hepatopancreatic ampulla
  44. Stensen’s duct – parotid duct
  45. Volkmann’s canal – perforating canal, nutrient canal
  46. Wernicke’s area – auditory association area
  47. Wharton’s duct – submandibular duct
  48. Wormian bone – sutural bone




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