http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:48:06 GMT Silverchair editor@archinte.jamanetwork.com webmaster@archinte.jamanetwork.com http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=225874 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Mora B, Bosch X. <span class="paragraphSection">A medical eponym is the name of a disease or condition based on the name of a person or a place. It has traditionally been considered an honor for physicians to have an illness, microorganism, semiological sign, or anatomical area named after them. Eponyms can be a convenient shortcut to refer to groups of pleomorphic conditions whose specific descriptions are difficult to remember and describe. As Woywodt et al pointed out, it is much easier to speak of Fallot tetralogy than congenital cyanotic heart disease due to ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, and aortic dextroposition. Furthermore, eponyms often provide a historical context to the description of the syndrome and a link to the development of medical science.</span> 170 16 1499 1500 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.281 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=225874