List of eponymous diseases

An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary or theatrical character who exhibited signs of the disease or the subject of an allusion, as its characteristics were suggestive of symptoms observed in the disorder. == Naming systems == Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine.

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