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Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons.
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example : you can search for Trendelenberg :
Friedrich Trendelenburg
German surgeon, born May 24, 1844, Berlin; died December 15, 1924, Nikolassee near Berlin.
Associated eponyms:
Brodie-Trendelenburg percussion test (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/972.html)
Test for incompetent valves in superficial veins.
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Trendelenburg's cannula (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/966.html)
Tampon cannula used for preventing patients from swallowing blood during operations of the larynx.
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Trendelenburg's operation I (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/968.html)
Operative removal of emboly in a. pulmonalis in severe pulmonary emboly.
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Trendelenburg's operation II (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/969.html)
Ligation of the great saphenous vein for the treatment of varicose veins in the leg.
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Trendelenburg's position (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/967.html)
Position in which the patient is on an elevated and inclined plane, usually about 45°, with the head down and legs and feet over the edge of the table.
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Trendelenburg's symptom (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/970.html)
Sign of congenital dislocation of the hip joint.
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Trendelenburg's test I (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/971.html)
Test for varicose veins.
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Trendelenburg's test II (http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/3077.html)
A test to assess hip mobility.
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