Famous names in medicine

last SG · 2006-01-07T05:21:26+00:00

Here is an interesting link those who are interested might explore: http://www.whonamedit.com/

Master -_- SG

There's quite a few.. my gf did it for one of her "thesis"...

Asperger syndrome Hans Asperger
Christmas disease Stephen Christmas
Hodgkin's disease Thomas Hodgkin
Tourette Syndrome Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Whipple's disease George Hoyt Whipple

nightzip SG

why no chinese names disease or virus???? Sad

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Haha, by the time you post this, I was asleep. Very Happy

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Christmas Disease??? Shocked

renorenal SG

Waterhouse Friderichson Syndrome

Complication of adrenal hemorrhage from meningococcal septicemia in infants.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Very very chim.

renorenal SG

Nelson Syndrome

Complication of bilateral adrenalectomy which leads to bilateral enlargement of the pituitary glands and the development of large and invasive growths of adenoma.

renorenal SG

Sheehan Syndrome

Post partum hemorrhage (severe) leads to a rare complication of pituitary necrosis (due to severely low blood perfusion and blood pressure). The damaged glands can no longer produce sufficient amount of prolactin which triggers breast milk.

renorenal SG

Heberden’s Node and Bouchard’s Nodes in osteoarthritis of the interphalangeal joints.

renorenal SG

Grey Turner sign and Cullen sign in acute pancreatitis.

oxford mushroom SG

Yes...lack of Factor IX in the blood clotting cascade...alos known as heamophilia B

oxford mushroom SG

Sir MA Epstein and YM Barr who gave their names to the Epstein Barr virus. Epstein still works in the same building here

I read the interesting account of how the virus was discovered. As with penicillin, it came about because of an error and the important lesson is not to throw things away just because you have made a mistake....look at it and think Smile

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Dot dot dot. At least give it a nicer name ma. People celebrate Christmas, and there you are, having Christmas disease.

oxford mushroom SG

What about the reverse...people with names that sound like an illness. I remember a nice girl called melina...she did not realize that melina sounds like melena, which means black, tarry stool due to upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding

ndmmxiaomayi SG

But she didn't suffer from upper gastronintestinal tract bleeding, right?

If not, it's like she cursed herself or her parents cursed her.

oxford mushroom SG

No, but the name does not sound that nice to medical practitioners...Another example is Amelia...in medicine it refers to babies born without limbs...

thinkdifferent SG

Crohn’s disease and Bechterew’s disease. I have a friend who has both of them.

oxford mushroom SG

After American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, although it was apparently first described by Giovanni Battista Morgagni in the 16th century.

As for Bechterew's disease, my goodness...where did your friend get that diagnosis from? I bet many doctors in Singapore wouldn't know what that is...I had to search for it myself. It's ankylosing spondylitis...quite common disease with the genetic association HLA B27. It was described by various people including W. von Bechterew (1883), Adolph Strumpell (1897), and Pierre Marie (189 Cool . Actually ankylosing spondylitis is more commonly known as Marie-Strumpell Disease in Singapore, or at least that's what they taught us in NUS a long time ago.

thinkdifferent SG

You are right, it wasn't diagnosed in Singapore.

hisoka SG

what about barrett’s esophagus?

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