Eponyms - Disease Picture and Medical Tutor
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[Caution] This app contains disease pictures that you may feel uncomfortable with, but it is just the best way for you to learn eponymous disease.
If you are a medical student, a medical provider or a nurse for any length of time, you will come across eponyms. Eponyms are diseases, disorders, procedures or equipment that is named for some person. For example, you will not be asking for a indwelling urinary catheter, you will be asking for a Foley catheter. When a patient went to the operating room for a pancreaticoduodenenectomy, modified or not, it was not called that, it was called a Whipple’s surgery. If a patient was at doctor’s and s/he said, your tests have come back, it would be unlikely for her to say you have an inflammatory B-cell lymphoma, rather she would say, you have Hodgkin’s disease.
Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honor: "Eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard." The scientific and medical communities regard it as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself.
To discuss something, it must have a name. At a time when medicine lacked tools to investigate underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient way to label a disease.
Some diseases are named after the person who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease, and Mortimer's disease. There are at least two eponymous disorders which follow neither of these conventions: Fregoli delusion, and Munchausen syndrome.
If you are a medical student, a medical provider or a nurse for any length of time, you will come across eponyms. Eponyms are diseases, disorders, procedures or equipment that is named for some person. For example, you will not be asking for a indwelling urinary catheter, you will be asking for a Foley catheter. When a patient went to the operating room for a pancreaticoduodenenectomy, modified or not, it was not called that, it was called a Whipple’s surgery. If a patient was at doctor’s and s/he said, your tests have come back, it would be unlikely for her to say you have an inflammatory B-cell lymphoma, rather she would say, you have Hodgkin’s disease.
Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honor: "Eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard." The scientific and medical communities regard it as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself.
To discuss something, it must have a name. At a time when medicine lacked tools to investigate underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient way to label a disease.
Some diseases are named after the person who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease, and Mortimer's disease. There are at least two eponymous disorders which follow neither of these conventions: Fregoli delusion, and Munchausen syndrome.
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.3
Last updated on Jul 1, 2016
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Over 115,600 users are using Eponyms to learn a wide variety of disease by pictures - the most effective way to memorize and make sense of a disease.
1. Bookmark the diseases
2. Zoom into the very detailed HD images
Over 115,600 users are using Eponyms to learn a wide variety of disease by pictures - the most effective way to memorize and make sense of a disease.
1. Bookmark the diseases
2. Zoom into the very detailed HD images
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Version History
1.3
Jul 1, 2016
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Over 115,600 users are using Eponyms to learn a wide variety of disease by pictures - the most effective way to memorize and make sense of a disease.
1. Bookmark the diseases
2. Zoom into the very detailed HD images
Over 115,600 users are using Eponyms to learn a wide variety of disease by pictures - the most effective way to memorize and make sense of a disease.
1. Bookmark the diseases
2. Zoom into the very detailed HD images
1.2
Jan 9, 2016
NEW feature #1: Eponyms List with all HD pictures
NEW feature #2: Search for Eponyms
NEW feature #3: Wiki link added
NEW feature #2: Search for Eponyms
NEW feature #3: Wiki link added
1.1
Nov 18, 2015
New #1. Support Spotlight Search with images on iOS 9.0 and later
New #2. A massive improvement on Eponyms picture search
New #3. New feature to search Wiki pages about eponyms and show in in-app Safari
New #4. Add thumb and large pictures for better performance
New #2. A massive improvement on Eponyms picture search
New #3. New feature to search Wiki pages about eponyms and show in in-app Safari
New #4. Add thumb and large pictures for better performance
1.0
Nov 7, 2015
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iPhone
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Eponyms - Disease Picture and Medical Tutor supports English
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