0 the name of an object or activity that is also the name of the person who first produced the object or did the activity
We have seen that this eponym has been widely accepted.
Second, there is still a lack of agreement on the construction of eponyms.
The eponym has only been used as a synonym for a communication between the left ventricle and the right atrium.
As will be shown below, medical eponyms can also employ names from nonmedical areas, where typicality rather than priority is commemorated.
The attachment of multiple eponyms to the same or a similar name, nonetheless, can be a source of confusion.
Some of these occur several times and there are 61 distinct eponyms in all.
Since there is a large number of eponyms in medicine, medical students have to be made familiar with them from an early stage.
