Human anatomical parts named after people - Definition and Overview

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.

• Achilles' tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal)
• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Artery of Adamkiewicz
• Auerbach's plexus
• Bachmann's bundle
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
• Batson's plexus
• Betz cells
• Billroth's cords
• Bowman's capsule – Sir William Bowman
• Broca's area – Paul Pierre Broca
• Brunner's glands
• Buck's fascia
• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
• Calot's triangle
• Canals of Hering
• Canals of Lambert
• Cantlie's line
• Carabelli's tubercle
• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms
• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
• Colles' fascia
• Cooper's hernia
• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament
• Cooper's ligaments
• Cowper's glands – William Cowper
• Crypts of Lieberkühn
• Crypts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Darwin's tubercle
• Denonvillier's fascia
• Douglas' Pouch – James Douglas
• Duct of Santorini
• Duct of Wirsung
• Ducts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Edinger-Westphal nucleus
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi
• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• Foramen of Winslow
• Foramina of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Foramina of Monro
• Fossa of Geraldi
• Gallaudet's fascia
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre N. Gerdy
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
• Glands of Montgomery
• Glisson's capsule
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
• Great vein of Galen
• Hasner's Fold – Joseph R. Hasner
• Hering's nerve
• Herring bodies
• Heschl's gyri
• Hesselbach's triangle
• Houston's muscle – John Houston
• Hydatids of Morgagni
• Islets of Langerhans – Paul Langerhans
• Kerckring's valves
• Kernohan notch
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Krause's end-bulbs
• Kupffer cells
• Lacunae of Morgagni
• Langer's lines
• Langhans giant cell
• Ligament of Trietz
• Lissauer's tract
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
• 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
• Morgagni's hernia
• Morrison's pouch
• Müllerian ducts – Joh. Müller
• Nucleus of Onufrowicz
• Paneth cells
• Papez circuit
• Peyer's patches – Johann K. Peyer
• Pores of Kohn
• Pouch of Douglas
• Poupart's ligament
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
• Rathke's pouch
• Reed-Sternberg cell – Dorothy Reed, Carl von Sternberg or George M. Sternberg
• Reichert cartilage
• Renal columns of Bertin
• Renshaw cells
• Richter's hernia
• Riedel's lobe
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
• Rolandic fissure; fissure of Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes
• Ruffini's corpuscles
• Schatzki's ring
• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside who had distinctive whiskers
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Space of Disse
• Space of Retzius
• Sphincter of Oddi
• Spigelian hernia
• Spiral valves of Heister
• Stensen's duct
• Sylvian aqueduct
• Thorel's pathway
• Traube's space
• Urethral glands of Littré
• Veins of Mayo
• Veins of Retzius
• Virchow-Robin spaces
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
• Von Ebner's gland – A. G. von Ebner
• Waldeyer's throat
• Wenckebach's bundle
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct
• Wharton's jelly
• White lines of Toldt
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm

See also

• Human anatomy
• List of anatomical topics

External link

• Name origins in the medical field (http://www.whonamedit.com)