This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.
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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.
A
- Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
- Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
- Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Sir Rutherford Alcock
- Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
- Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach
B
- Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann
- Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
- Batson's plexus
- Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell
- Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini
- Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin
- Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz
- Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth
- Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman
- Broca's area – Paul Broca
- Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann
- Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner
- Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck
C
- Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle
- Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Joseph Bouchard
- Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac
- Christmas factor – Stephen Christmas
- Clara cell – Max Clara
- Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles
- Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper
- Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
- Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
- Organ of Corti – Alphonso Corti
- Cowper's glands – William Cowper
- Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier
- Chiari malformation – Hans Chiari
D
- Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin
- Campbell de Morgan spots
- Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers
- Descemet's membrane – Jean Descemet
- Space of Disse – Joseph Disse
- Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas
E
- Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner
- Edinger-Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
- Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi
F
G
- Gallaudet's fascia
- Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
- Fossa of Geraldi
- Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy
- Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
- Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson
- Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi
- Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf
- Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
- Great vein of Galen – Galen, an ancient Greek physician
H
- Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner
- Haversian canal – Clopton Havers
- Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister
- Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
- Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering
- Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering
- Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring
- Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl
- Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach
- Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore
- Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
- Scrotal Raphe of Holzer – Horatio Holzer
- Houston's muscle – John Houston
- Howell-Jolly bodies – William Henry Howell, Justin Marie Jolly
- Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier
- Hurthle cell – Karl Hürthle
K
- Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring
- Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan
- Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach
- Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
- Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
- Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
L
- Canals of Lambert – Margaret Waugh Lambert
- Langer's lines – Karl Langer
- Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
- Langhans giant cell – Theodor Langhans
- Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
- Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
- Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
- Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
- Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
- Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
- Lovibond's angle
- Lund's node
- Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
M
- Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
- Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
- McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
- Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
- Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum– Johann Friedrich Meckel
- Anal Crypts of Meera – Meera Shah
- Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
- Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
- Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
- Meyer's loop
- Paraclitoral Recess of Mulvey – Joseph Mulvey
- Möll's gland and Space of Möll – Jacob A. Möll
- Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro
- Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
- Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
- Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
- Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller
- Mahdi Nerve- Dr. Mahdi Hasan
N
- Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl (all terms now rarely used)
O
- Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi
- Nucleus of Onufrowicz
P
- Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
- Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
- Papez circuit – James Papez
- Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
- Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
- Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
- Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
R
- Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
- Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
- Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
- Renshaw cells
- Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
- Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
- Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
- Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
- Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
- Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini
- Russ's moustache (Russtache) – Jeffrey Russ
- Rutherford Morrison's subhepatic space
S
- Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
- Schatzki's ring – Richard Schatzki
- Canal of Schlemm – Friedrich Schlemm
- Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
- Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
- Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
- Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside (for his distinctive whiskers)
- Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
- Spigelian fascia – Adriaan van den Spiegel
- Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
- Sylvian aqueduct
T
- Thorel's pathway
- White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
- Traube's space – Ludwig Traube
- Ligament of Trietz – Václav Treitz
V
- Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
- Virchow-Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
- Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
W
- Waldeyer's throat – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
- Weibel-Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel – George Emil Palade [1]
- Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach
- Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
- Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton
- Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
- Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow
- Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung
- Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
- Wormian bones – Ole Worm
Z
See also
- List of eponymous diseases
- List of eponymous medical signs
- List of eponymous medical treatments
- Lists of etymologies
- Human anatomy
- List of anatomical topics
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