Eponymous tests are generally named after the person who first described the test.
| Letter | Test | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Abel | Frederick Abel | Used to determine the flash point of a given sample of petroleum in order to ascertain the temperature at which it could safely be used |
| A | Used to assess the quality of arterial blood flow to the hand before arterial blood sampling or some surgeries | ||
| A | Used to quickly assess the health of a newborn infant | ||
| A | Used to evaluate people for problems in the meniscus of the knee | ||
| A | Used in newborns with blood in the stool to distinguish between swallowed maternal blood and neonatal gastrointestinal bleeding | ||
| B | Alison Bechdel, Liz Wallace | Used as an indicator for the active presence of women in films and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction | |
| D | Duess | Louisa Düss | Projective test for young children. |
| E | Ebert | Roger Ebert | Used to find out whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. |
| F | Used to measure how difficult it is to understand a piece of text written in English. | ||
| G | Gilman | Henry Gilman | Detection of Grignard reagents and organolithium reagents |
| H | Holtzman Inkblot | Wayne H. Holtzman | Projective personality test similar to the Rorschach, aimed at detecting personality. |
| I | Color perception test for red-green color deficiencies | ||
| M | Marvin Miller | Used by the United States Supreme Court for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.[1] | |
| M | Used to identify psychological types from a Jungian perspective. | ||
| P | Parks–Bielschowsky also known as the Park's three-step test or the Bielschowsky head tilt test | Marshall M. Parks, Alfred Bielschowsky | Used to test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle. |
| R | Rorschach | Hermann Rorschach | Used to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. |
| S | Scoville Organoleptic | Wilbur Scoville | Measure the pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers, as recorded in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component.[2] [3] [4] [5] |
| S | Szondi | Used to analyze personalities. | |
| T | Turing | Used to test a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. | |