List of human anatomical parts named after people explained
This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people. These are often called eponyms.
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.
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B
- Bachmann's bundleJean George Bachmann (18771959), German-American physiologist
- Balbiani bodiesÉdouard-Gérard Balbiani
- Bartholin's glandCaspar Bartholin the Younger (16551738), Danish anatomist
- Batson's plexusOscar Vivian Batson (18941979), American anatomist
- Long thoracic nerve of BellSir Charles Bell (17741842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist
- Duct of BelliniLorenzo Bellini (16431704), Italian anatomist
- Renal columns of BertinExupere Joseph Bertin (17121781), French anatomist
- Betz cellsVladimir Alekseyevich Betz (18341894), Ukrainian histologist
- Billroth's cordsTheodor Billroth (18291894), Austrian surgeon
- Bowman's capsule and Bowman's layerSir William Bowman (18161892), English surgeon-anatomist
- Broca's areaPaul Broca (18241880), French surgeon-anatomist
- Brodmann's areasKorbinian Brodmann (18681918), German neurologist
- Brunner's glandsJohann Conrad Brunner (16531727), Swiss anatomist
- Buck's fasciaGurdon Buck (18071877), American surgeon
C
- Cajal cellSantiago Ramón y Cajal (18521934), Spanish pathologist
- Cajal–Retzius cellSantiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (18421919), Swedish histologist
- Calyx of Held Hans Held (1866 - 1942), German Anatomist
- Calot's triangleJean-François Calot (18611944), French surgeon
- Fascia of Camper - Petrus Camper (1722-1789), Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist
- Chassaignac tubercleCharles Marie Édouard Chassaignac (18041879), French physician
- Clara cellMax Clara (18991966), German anatomist (renamed to Club cell after Max Clara's Nazi activities were discovered)
- Cloquet's canal Jules Cloquet (1790 - 1883), French Anatomist
- Colles' fasciaAbraham Colles (17731843), Irish surgeon
- Cooper's fasciaAstley Cooper (17681841), English surgeon
- Inguinal ligament of Cooper or Cooper's iliopectineal ligamentAstley Cooper
- Cooper's suspensory ligamentsAstley Cooper
- Organ of CortiAlfonso Corti (18221876), Italian microanatomist
- Cowper's glandsWilliam Cowper (16661709), English surgeon-anatomist
- Cuvier ductsGeorges Cuvier (17691832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist
- Canals of Lambert - described by Lambert in 1955
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- Hartmann's pouchHenri Hubert Vadim Hartmann (1860 - 1952), German Surgeon
- Hasner's FoldJoseph Hasner (18191892), Austrian ophthalmologist
- Haversian canalClopton Havers (16571702), English physician
- Spiral valves of HeisterLorenz Heister (16831758), German surgeon-anatomist
- Loop of HenleF. G. J. Henle (18091885), German pathologist
- Canals of HeringKarl Ewald Konstantin Hering (18341918), German physiologist
- Hering's nerveHeinrich Ewald Hering (18661948), Austrian physician
- Herring bodiesPercy Theodore Herring (18721967), English physiologist
- Heschl's gyriRichard L. Heschl (18241881), Austrian anatomist
- Hesselbach's triangleFranz Kaspar Hesselbach (17591816), German surgeon-anatomist
- Antrum of HighmoreNathaniel Highmore (16131685), English surgeon-anatomist
- Bundle of HisWilhelm His, Jr. (18631934), Swiss cardiologist
- Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers)John Houston (18021845), Irish anatomist
- Houston's valves John Houston (1802-1845), Irish anatomist
- Canal of HuguierPierre Charles Huguier (18041878), French surgeon-gynecologist
- Hurthle cellKarl Hürthle (18601945), German histologist
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- Waldeyer's tonsillar ringHeinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist
- Weibel–Palade bodyEwald R. Weibel (1929–2019), Swiss biologist, and George Emil Palade (1912–2008), Romanian-American cell biologist
- Wenckebach's bundleKarel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), Dutch anatomist
- Wernicke's areaKarl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
- Wharton's duct and Wharton's jellyThomas Wharton (1614–1673), English physician and anatomist
- Circle of Willisarterial circle in base of brainDr. Thomas Willis (16211675), English physician
- Foramen of WinslowJean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow (1669–1760), Danish-born French anatomist
- Duct of WirsungJohann Georg Wirsung (1589–1643), German anatomist
- Wolffian ductKaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist
- Wormian bonesOle Worm (1588–1654), Danish scientist
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