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Anestetic [448]
4 years ago
13

A disease, structure, operation, or procedure, named for the person who discovered or described it first is:

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1 answer:
iVinArrow [24]4 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The term is Eponym.

Explanation:

  • An eponym is a person or a thing whether its real or fictional after which a person,tribe,era or  other item is named.

Example of eponyms:

  1. <u>Parkinson disease</u>: named after James Parkinson,English physician who first described it in 1817 as a shaking palsy.
  2. <u>Adam, Biblical characte</u>r -- Adam's apple
  3. <u>Thomas Addison</u>- Addison's disease
  4. <u>Achilles, Greek mythological character</u>- Achilles heel,Achilles tendon
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