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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.

Contents

Alphabetical list

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Z

See also

External link

Alphabetical list

For clarity, entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L.

A

★ Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character

★ Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character

★ Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Sir Rutherford Alcock

★ Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz

★ Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach

B

★ Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann

★ Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger

★ Batson's plexus

★ Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell

★ Duct of Bellini – Giovanni Bellini

★ Renal columns of Bertin – René-Joseph-Hyacinthe Bertin

★ Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz

★ Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth

★ Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman

★ Broca's area – Paul Broca

★ Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann

★ Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner

★ Buck's fascia

C

★ Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal

★ Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle

★ Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Joseph Bouchard

★ Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac

★ Christmas factor – Stephen Christmas

★ Clara cell – Max Clara

★ Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles

★ Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper

★ Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper

★ Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper

★ Organ of Corti – Alphonso Corti

★ Cowper's glands – William Cowper

★ Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier

D

★ Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin

★ Campbell de Morgan spots

★ Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers

★ Space of Disse – Joseph Disse

★ Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas

E

★ Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner

★ Edinger-Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal

★ Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi

F

★ Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio

G

★ Gallaudet's fascia

★ Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner

★ Fossa of Geraldi

★ Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy

★ Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota

★ Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson

★ Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi

★ Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg

★ Great vein of Galen – Galen, an ancient Greek physician

H

★ Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner

★ Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister

★ Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle

★ Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering

★ Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering

★ Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring

★ Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl

★ Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach

★ Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore

★ Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.

★ Houston's muscle – John Houston

K

★ Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring

★ Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan

★ Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach

★ Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn

★ Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause

★ Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer

L

★ Canals of Lambert

★ Islets of Langerhans, Langhans giant cell and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans

★ Langer's lines

★ Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig

★ Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn

★ Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer

★ Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré

★ Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood

★ Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis

★ Lovibond's angle

★ Lund's node

★ Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

★ Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen

★ Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie

★ Veins of Mayo

★ McBurney's point – Charles McBurney

★ Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi

★ Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum– Johann Friedrich Meckel

★ Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom

★ Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner

★ Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel

★ Meyer's loop

★ Möll's gland and Space of Möll – Jacob A. Möll

★ Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro

★ Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery

★ Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni

★ Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison

★ Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller

★ Mahdi Nerve- Dr. Mahdi Hasan

N

★ Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl (all terms now rarely used)

O

★ Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi

★ Nucleus of Onufrowicz

P

★ Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini

★ Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth

★ Papez circuit – James Papez

★ Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer

★ Poupart's ligament – François Poupart

★ Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak

★ Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje

R

★ Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier

★ Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke

★ Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert

★ Renshaw cells

★ Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius

★ Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel

★ Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff

★ Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando

★ Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter

★ Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini

★ Rutherford Morrison's subhepatic space

S

★ Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini

★ Schatzki's ring – Richard Schatzki

★ Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli

★ Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey

★ Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell

★ Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside (for his distinctive whiskers)

★ Skene's gland – Alexander Skene

★ Spigelian fascia – Adriaan van den Spiegel

★ Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen

★ Sylvian aqueduct

T

★ Thorel's pathway

★ White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt

★ Traube's space – Ludwig Traube

★ Ligament of Trietz – Václav Treitz

V

★ Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater

★ Virchow-Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin

★ Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

★ Waldeyer's throat – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

★ Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach

★ Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke

★ Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton

★ Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis

★ Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow

★ Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung

★ Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff

★ Wormian bones – Ole Worm

Z

★ Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn

See also

★ List of eponymous diseases

★ List of eponymous medical signs

★ List of eponymous medical treatments

★ Lists of etymologies

★ Human anatomy

★ List of anatomical topics

External link

★ Whonamedit, name origins in the medical field