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Anatomical Eponyms
July 28, 2012 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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Anatomy is full of eponyms β that is, words inspired by the name of a person. For examples, there are the fallopian tubes, the Achilles heel, and the eustachian tubes. But there's a movement in anatomy to replace eponyms with more scientific, descriptive names. Thus, fallopian tubes are now uterine tubes and eustachian tubes are auditory tubes. This is part of a complete episode.