List of Eponymously Named Diseases (R-Z)

List of Eponymously Named Diseases (R-Z)

 

List of Eponymously Named Diseases (A-C)

List of Eponymously Named Diseases (D-J)

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Some diseases have been named after the person who first described the condition. This usually involves publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely an eponymous disease may be named after a patient (examples include Christmas disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease and Mortimer's disease).

Related disease namings include place names (Bornholm disease, Lyme disease, Ebola hemorrhagic fever) and even societies (Legionnaires' disease). These, however, are not eponyms.

Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honour: "eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard" (Merton R K, 1973). It is regarded as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself. At a time when medicine lacked the tools to investigate the underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient mechanism for attaching a label to a disease. In order to freely discuss something, it must have a name.

R

• Ramsay Hunt syndrome – James Ramsay Hunt, American neurologist
• Raynaud's disease – Maurice Raynaud, French physician
• Refsum's disease – Sigvald Bernhard Refsum, Norwegian neurologist
• Reiter's syndrome – Hans Conrad Julius Reiter, German physician
• Rett Syndrome – Andreas Rett, Austrian pediatrician
• Reye's syndrome – R. Douglas Reye
• Rickettsiosis – Howard Taylor Ricketts
• Riggs' disease – John M. Riggs (dentist)
• Riley–Day syndrome – Conrad Milton Riley, Richard Lawrence Day
• Ritter's disease – Baron Gottfried Ritter von Rittershain
• Robles Disease^[3] (Onchocercosis) – Rodolfo Robles, Guatemalan physician
• Roger's disease – Henri Louis Roger
• Rotor syndrome – Arturo Belleza Rotor, Filipino internist
• Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome – Jack Herbert Rubinstein, Hooshang Taybi
• Ruzicka Goerz Anton syndrome – T. Ruzicka, G. Goerz, and I. Anton-Lamprecht

S

• Salmonella – Daniel Elmer Salmon
• Sandhoff disease – Konrad Sandhoff
• Schamberg's disease – Jay Frank Schamberg
• Schilder's disease – Paul Ferdinand Schilder
• Schinzel–Giedion syndrome – Albert Schinzel, Andreas Giedion
• Schnitzler syndrome – Liliane Schnitzler, French dermatologist
• Seaver Cassidy syndrome – Laurie Seaver, Suzanne Cassidy
• Seligmann's disease – Maxime Seligmann
• Sever's disease – J.W.Sever
• Sheehan's syndrome – Harold Leeming Sheehan
• Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome – Harry Shwachman, Martin Bodian, Louis Klein Diamond
• Silver–Russell syndrome – Henry Silver, Alexander Russell
• Simmonds' syndrome – Moritz Simmonds
• Sjogren's syndrome – Henrik Sjögren, Swedish ophthalmologist
• Steele–Richardson–Olszewski syndrome –
• Stevens–Johnson syndrome – Albert Mason Stevens, Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians
• Sturge–Weber syndrome – William Allen Sturge, Frederick Parkes Weber
• Still's disease – Sir George Frederick Still
• Susac's syndrome – John Susac
• Sutton's disease – Richard Lightburn Sutton, American dermatologist (1878–1952)

T

• Takayasu's arteritis – Mikito Takayasu, Japanese ophthalmologist
• Tay–Sachs disease – Warren Tay, Bernard Sachs
• Theileriosis – Sir Arnold Theiler
• Thomsen's disease – Julius Thomsen, Danish physician,
• Tietz syndrome – W.Tietz
• Tietze's syndrome – Alexander Tietze
• Tourette syndrome – Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette
• Treacher Collins syndrome (Mandibulofacial dysostosis) – Edward Treacher Collins
• Turcot syndrome – Jacques Turcot
• Turner's syndrome – Henry Turner

U

• Unverricht–Lundborg disease – Heinrich Unverricht, Herman Bernhard Lundborg
• Usher syndrome – Charles Usher

V

• Vincent's angina – Henri Vincent, French physician
• Virchow's syndrome – Rudolf Virchow, German physician
• Von Gierke's disease – Edgar von Gierke
• Von Hippel–Lindau disease – Eugen von Hippel; Arvid Vilhelm Lindau, Swedish pathologist
• Von Recklinghausen's disease – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
• Von Willebrand's disease – Erik Adolf von Willebrand

W

• Waardenburg syndrome – Petrus Johannes Waardenburg
• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia – Jan G. Waldenström, Swedish physician
• Warkany syndrome (trisomy) – Joseph Warkany, American human geneticist and pediatrician
• Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome – Rupert Waterhouse, an English physician, Carl Friderichsen, a Danish pediatrician
• Weber–Christian disease – Frederick Parkes Weber, Henry Asbury Christian
• Wegener's granulomatosis – Friedrich Wegener^[4]
• Weil's disease – Adolf Weil
• Wells syndrome – George Wells^{[disambiguation needed]}
• Werner's syndrome – Otto Werner, Zava, German scientist
• Wernicke's encephalopathy – Karl Wernicke
• Whipple's disease – George Hoyt Whipple
• Williams syndrome – J. C. P. Willams, New Zealand cardiologist
• Wilms' tumor – Max Wilms, German surgeon
• Wilson's disease – Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
• Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome – Alfred Wiskott, Robert Aldrich
• Wohlfart–Kugelberg–Welander disease – Karl Gunnar Vilhelm Wohlfart, Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander
• Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome – Louis Wolff, Sir John Parkinson (physician), Paul Dudley White
• Wolman disease – Moshe Wolman

X Y Z

• Zellweger syndrome – Hans Zellweger
• Zieve's syndrome – Leslie Zieve
• Zollinger–Ellison syndrome – Robert Zollinger, Edwin Ellison, American surgeons