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What's in a name?
"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. Hard numbers: 5523 eponyms described in 2627 main entries. These eponyms are linked to 2263 persons: 67 female and 2196 male."




