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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Queensland Afternoons - A Word in Your Ear: Eponyms. Sep 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Michigan Medicine - Declining use of neurological eponyms in cases where a non-eponymous alternative exists. Nov 29, 2024
Add new Web site: BioMed Central - Journal of Medical Case Reports - The use of eponyms in medical case reports: etymological, quantitative, and structural analysis. Sep 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Eponyms in English (PDF). Jan 11, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Should eponyms be abandoned? Yes. Sep 21, 2023
Add new Web site: CORE - Eponyms or Descriptive Equivalent Terms the Question of Scientific Accuracy in the Medical Discourse. Jul 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Eponym. Feb 22, 2016
Article revised. Sep 01, 1999
New article added. Jun 23, 1999
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