Stedman's Medical Eponyms, Book

Medical language is teeming with procedures, syndromes, instruments, signs, phenomena, and techniques that have been named after the person (or persons) who first discovered, invented, or, in the case of some diseases, acquired it. Additional medical conditions are described by the geographical location in which a particular disease occurs. Due to the potential variances in the spelling of names from nationality to nationality and place to place, eponyms are often among the most difficult medical terminology for healthcare professionals to absorb and recall.

Stedman's Medical Eponyms, 2nd Edition provides members of the healthcare community with an authoritative resource for these often problematic eponyms. This fully revised second edition covers nearly 18,000 eponymic terms encountered in medicine, with clear, concise definitions, comprehensive cross-referencing, and variant spellings.

Each entry is accompanied by available biographical information, including the individual's full name, specialty, nationality, birth and death dates, and associated terms. New to this edition is a Keyword Index, which allows readers to find eponymic terms using a main entry-subentry format.

This is a book (print edition), not software