Medical Eponyms

Match the medical term with the alternative eponym.

Many of these eponyms are still used today, while others have been mostly retired.

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Hint	Answer
Primary adrenal insufficiency	Addison's disease
Bulbourethral gland	Cowper's gland
Frontotemporal dementia	Pick's disease
Hepatopancreatic duct	Ampulla of Vater
Hemophilia B	Christmas disease
Subacute spongiform encephalopathy	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Pancreatic islets	Islets of Langerhans
Trisomy 21	Down syndrome

Hint	Answer
IgA nephropathy (synpharyngitic glomerulonephritis)	Berger's disease
Suspensory muscle of duodenum	Ligament of Treitz
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	Lou Gehrig's disease
Uterine tubes	Fallopian tubes
Factitious disorder	Munchausen syndrome
Calcaneal tendon	Achilles tendon
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (or allergic granulomatosis)	Churg–Strauss syndrome
Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis	Hashimoto's thyroiditis