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Eponymous vs Noneponymous Terms.
Brenda Gregoline
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
Use of eponyms in the biomedical literature should be considered with regard to their usefulness in transmitting medical information. Medical writing is replete with eponyms; however, descriptive terms are often more useful for a reader. For instance, the pancreatic duct is sometimes referred to as the duct of Wirsung, after its discoverer, but that term gives no useful information about the function or location of the duct. In any case, many eponyms can be replaced with a noneponymous term that consists of a descriptive word or phrase that designates the same disease, condition, or procedure. For example:...Eponyms
Brenda Gregoline
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
The Eponyms chapter of the 11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style addresses the use of eponymous vs noneponymous terms and, on the sometimes debated issue of the possessive vs ...
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Eponyms.
Brenda Gregoline
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
Eponyms are names or phrases derived from or including the name of a person or place. These terms are used in a descriptive or adjectival sense in medical and scientific writing to describe diseases, syndromes, signs, tests, methods, and procedures. Eponyms often indicate the name of the describer or presumptive discoverer of the disease (Alzheimer disease) or sign (Murphy sign), the name of a person or kindred found to have the disease described (Christmas disease), or, when based on the name of a place (technically called ...Nonpossessive Form.
Brenda Gregoline
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th ed.)
There is some continuing debate about the use of the possessive form for eponyms, but a transition toward the nonpossessive form has taken place. A major step toward preference for the nonpossessive form occurred when the National Down Syndrome Society advocated the use of Down syndrome...View:
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