List of human anatomical parts named after people

This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

Contents

1 Alphabetical list 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C 1.4 D 1.5 E 1.6 F 1.7 G 1.8 H 1.9 K 1.10 L 1.11 M 1.12 O 1.13 P 1.14 R 1.15 S 1.16 T 1.17 V 1.18 W 2 See also 3 External link

Alphabetical list

For clarity entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L.

A

• Achilles' tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal)
• Artery of Adamkiewicz
• Auerbach's plexus

B

• Bachmann's bundle
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
• Batson's plexus
• Duct of Bellini - Giovanni Bellini
• Renal columns of Bertin
• Betz cells
• Billroth's cords - Theodor Billroth
• Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman
• Broca's area – Paul Pierre Broca
• Brodmann's areas - Korbinian Brodmann
• Brunner's glands
• Buck's fascia

C

• Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle
• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot, Charles-Joseph Bouchard
• Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac
• Christmas factor – Stephen Christmas
• Clara cell – Max Clara
• Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles
• Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper
• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
• Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
• Organ of Corti – Alphonso Corti
• Cowper's glands – William Cowper
• Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier

D

• Darwin's tubercle
• Campbell de Morgan spots
• Denonvillier's fascia
• Space of Disse
• Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas

E

• Von Ebner's gland – A. G. von Ebner
• Edinger-Westphal nucleus
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi

F

• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio

G

• Gallaudet's fascia
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
• Fossa of Geraldi
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre N. Gerdy
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
• Glisson's capsule
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
• Great vein of Galen

H

• Hasner's Fold – Joseph R. Hasner
• Spiral valves of Heister
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
• Canals of Hering
• Hering's nerve
• Herring bodies
• Heschl's gyri
• Hesselbach's triangle
• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
• Houston's muscle – John Houston

K

• Kerckring's valves
• Kernohan notch
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Pores of Kohn
• Krause's end-bulbs
• Kupffer cells

L

• Canals of Lambert
• Islets of Langerhans – Paul Langerhans
• Langer's lines
• Langhans giant cell
• Crypts of Lieberkühn
• Lissauer's tract
• Urethral glands of Littré
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Crypts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Ducts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Foramina of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

• Macewen's triangle - Sir William Macewen
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• Veins of Mayo
• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
• Meckel's cartilage
• Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
• Meissner corpuscles – Georg Meissner
• Meissner's plexus
• Meyer's loop
• Moll's gland – Jacob A. Moll
• Foramina of Monro
• Glands of Montgomery
• Morgagni's hernia - Giovanni Battista Morgagni
• Hydatids of Morgagni
• Lacunae of Morgagni
• Morrison's pouch
• Müllerian ducts – Joh. Müller

O

• Sphincter of Oddi
• Nucleus of Onufrowicz

P

• Paneth cells
• Papez circuit
• Peyer's patches – Johann K. Peyer
• Poupart's ligament
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje

R

• Node of Ranvier
• Rathke's pouch
• Reichert cartilage
• Renshaw cells
• Space of Retzius
• Veins of Retzius
• Richter's hernia
• Riedel's lobe
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
• Rolandic fissure; fissure of Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes
• Ruffini's corpuscles

S

• Duct of Santorini
• Schatzki's ring
• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside who had distinctive whiskers
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Spigelian hernia
• Stensen's duct
• Sylvian aqueduct

T

• Thorel's pathway
• White lines of Toldt
• Traube's space
• Ligament of Trietz

V

• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Virchow-Robin spaces
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

• Waldeyer's throat
• Wenckebach's bundle
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct
• Wharton's jelly
• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
• Foramen of Winslow
• Duct of Wirsung
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm

See also

• List of eponymous diseases
• List of eponymous medical signs
• List of eponymous medical treatments
• Human anatomy
• List of anatomical topics

External link

• Name origins in the medical field