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 --
With an integrated approach, the student will come to know a large number of eponyms and, by the end of the studies, be able to use them confidently.
The use of so-called implies either that the eponym has not yet become widely accepted, or that this particular author has not used it frequently.
In such eponyms, of course, the possessive is never used.
The problem is heightened by the fact that some eponyms are not specifically descriptive without further qualification.
Dictionaries of medical eponyms typically list synonyms, a definition and the person whom the eponym is dedicated to, sometimes including a few biographical dates.
In so doing, she touched upon the question of the status of eponyms in modern medical terminology.
Medical eponyms are therefore both praised and condemned for the same feature, namely for being less precise than the rest of medical nomenclature.
But the questions of which function/s an eponym, or a more descriptive synonym, fulfils, can only be answered for each individual case.
