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Medical Eponyms
Stack #139119
| Eponym | Equivalent Name or Definition |
|---|---|
| Colle's Fracture | Fracture at wrist. |
| Pott's Fracture | Fracture affecting both bones of leg, at ankle. |
| Haversian Canals | Central Canals |
| Haversian Systems | Osteons |
| Sharpey's Fibres | Perforating Fibres- Collagen fibres incorperated into bone tissue. |
| Volkmann's Canals | Perforating canals- between central canals in bone. |
| Wormian Bones | Sutural Bones. |
| Cori Cycle | The metabolic exchange of lactic acid from skeletal muscle for glucose from the liver. (performed during recovery) |
| Broca's Centre | Speech Centre |
| Foramen of Luschka | Lateral foramina- one of the 2 lateral openings draining the 4th ventricle. |
| Meissner's Corpuscles | Tactile corpuscles- receptor in skin sensitive to light touch. |
| Merkel's Disks | Tactile disks- fine touch and pressure receptors. |
| Foramen of Munro | Interventricular foramen- connects 1st and 2nd to 3rd ventricle. |
| Nissl Bodies | Large granular body found in neurones. |
| Pacinian Corpuscles | Sensitive to deep pressure. |
| Purkinje Fibers | Conductive fibres located in the inner ventricular walls of the heart. |
| Fissure of Ronaldo | Central Sulcus |
| Schwann Cells | Neurolemmocytes |
| Aqueduct of Sylvius | Mesencephalic Aqueduct |
| Sylvian fissure | Lateral sulcus |
| Pons varolii | Pons |
| Organ of Corti | Spiral organ- organ in inner ear containing hair cells. |
| Cells of Leydig | Interstitial Cells- located in testes, secrete testosterone. |
| Circle of Willis | Cerebral arterial circle. |
| Bundle of His | AV bundle- heart conduction from AV node to apex of fascicular branches. |
| Starlings Law | Force of muscle contraction depends on length of muscle fibres. |
| Hassal's Corpuscles | Located in thymus, made of reticuloendothelial cells. |
| Kupffer cells | Stellate reticuloendothelial cells |
| Peyer's Patches | Aggregated lymphoid nodules. |
| Bohr effect | An increase in blood carbon dioxide level or a decrease in pH causes haemoglobin to bind to oxygen with less affinity. |
| Boyle's Law | The relationship between the product pressure and volume within a closed system as constant when temperature and moles remain at a fixed measure; both entities remain inversely proportional. |
| Plexus of Auerbach | Myenteric Plexus |
| Brunners Glands | Duodenal Glands |
| Crypts of Lieberkuhn | Intestinal glands. |
| Plexus of Meissner | Submucosal plexus- nerve branches in small intestine which have perforated the smooth muscle. |
| Sphincter of Oddi | Hepatopancreatic sphincter. |
| Duct of Santorini | Common Accessory Duct |
| Stensen's Duct | Parotid duct- route of saliva from parotid gland to mouth. |
| Ampulla of Vater | Formed where bile duct and common pancreatic duct meet. |
| Wharton's Duct | Submandibular duct- submandibular gland to mouth. |
| Duct of Wirsung | Pancreatic Duct |
| Bowman's Capsule | Glomerular Capsule |
| Loop of Henle | Nephron Loop |
| Bartholin's Glands | Greater Vestibular Glands- secrete mucus to provide vaginal lubrication. |
| Cowper's Glands | Bulbourethral glands- create pre-ejaculate during sexual arousal. |
| Fallopian Tube | Uterine tube/ oviduct |
| Graafian Follicle | Tertiary follicle- basic unit of female reproductive biology. |
| Glands of Littre | Lesser Vestibular glands- minute mucous glands opening into the vagina. |
| Sertoli Cells | Nurtures developing sperm cells. |
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