In the Middle Ages, "Brutus" was thought to be the eponym of "Britain"
William Penn is the eponym of Pennsylvania
The word 'hippo', 'mall' in the Bamana language, is an eponym for the country itself.
An eponym is an honor, and these two men are not worthy.
He is rightfully regarded as one of the founding fathers of nephrology, with his name immortalized in the eponym Bright's disease.
Another Egyptian king in whom the Greeks showed great interest, a figure entirely of legend rather than of myth-history like Psammetichos, was one Busiris, the supposed eponym of the place of that name.
But it was two Dublin clinicians more than a century later who gave heart block and its effects the eponym Stokes - Adams syndrome.
Leprosy was given the eponym Hansen's disease after Gerhard Henrick Armauer Hansen.
This is rare but can present with inflammatory conditions of the upper respiratory tract and the neck; it has the eponym Grisel's syndrome.
Although benign congenital hypotonia subsequently came to be known by the eponym of Walton's hypotonia, Walton was not the first to describe this entity.
This in part is due to the confusion that arises by the numerous eponyms given to describe the same condition.
He chose mariner - not, as usually conjectured, after Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, although the eponymy is apt - but in honor of his newborn daughter, Marin.
While some eponyms may be simply disputed, others lean towards the apocryphal, like the idea that the Bloody Mary cocktail was named for England's ‘Bloody Mary,’ Queen Mary I of England.
Unsurprisingly, four fifths of the trainees surveyed said they thought that eponyms should be abandoned as a way of describing fractures.
All forms of congenital jaundice are nearly universally referred to by their eponyms rather than by their descriptive names.
Naming experts are also wary of eponyms because they stake the company's reputation on the founder's personal reputation.
This history would seem to provide a noteworthy lesson for those seeking immortality via eponymy!
It is actually feasible to inspect every term in a nomenclature, looking for eponyms or other objectionable concepts.
I have avoided using eponyms for physical signs.
If you're still using terms like cytotic lesion when you mean cancer, and if you can't resist abbreviations, eponyms, and Latin names for common illnesses, you may need help from the Plain English Campaign.
A few years later, Old Lyme would become the eponym for the disease; and those once-annoying deer ticks were suddenly noxious.
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an eponym for a heterogeneous group of immune-mediated peripheral neuropathies.
