Eponymous diseases are diseases that are named after people, usually either the doctor who first described the disease or after the first patient described with the disease. Sometimes, a disease is named after a place where there is an usually high occurrence of the disease. Diseases such as Alice in Wonderland syndrome have been named after fictional characters based on the symptoms experienced.

See also: List of eponymous diseases

Articles in category "Eponymous diseases"

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Achard-Thiers syndrome Addison's disease Aicardi syndrome Alexander disease Alice in Wonderland syndrome Alpers' disease Alport syndrome Alzheimer's disease Angelman syndrome Arnold-Chiari malformation Asherman's syndrome Asperger's syndrome B Baker's cyst Balint's syndrome Barlow's disease Barlow's syndrome Barrett's esophagus Behcet syndrome Behçet's disease Bell's palsy Binswanger's disease Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome Bloom syndrome Boerhaave's syndrome Bornholm disease Bowen's disease Bright's disease Brown-Sequard syndrome Brugada syndrome Burkitt's lymphoma C Canavan disease Carney's complex Castleman's disease Cenani Lenz syndactylism Chagas disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Charles Bonnet syndrome Chorea (disease) Churg-Strauss syndrome Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Crohn's disease Cushing's syndrome D Devic's disease Diabetic nephropathy Dieulafoy's lesion Down syndrome Duane syndrome Dupuytren's contracture E Edward's syndrome Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Eisenmenger's syndrome

E cont. Evans syndrome Ewing's sarcoma F Fabry's disease Fahr's syndrome Familial Mediterranean fever Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy G Gaucher's disease Gerstmann's syndrome Glanzmann's thrombasthenia Goodpasture's syndrome Graves-Basedow disease Guillain-Barré syndrome H Hashimoto's thyroiditis Henoch-Schönlein purpura Heyde's syndrome Hirschsprung's disease Hodgkin's disease Hunter syndrome Huntington's disease J Joubert syndrome K Kabuki syndrome Kallmann syndrome Kallmann's syndrome Kaposi's sarcoma Katayama fever Kawasaki disease Klatskin tumor Klinefelter's syndrome Klippel Feil syndrome Korsakoff's syndrome L Lafora disease Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome Leigh's disease Lemierre's syndrome Leprosy Leptospirosis Li-Fraumeni syndrome List of eponymous diseases Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome M Marfan syndrome Minamata disease Mobius syndrome Mondor's disease Morvan's syndrome Ménière’s disease N Niemann-Pick disease Noonan syndrome O Ondine's curse P Paget's disease of bone Paget's disease of the breast Parkinson's disease

P cont. Patau syndrome Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease Pendred syndrome Peyronie's disease Philadelphia chromosome Pickardt syndrome Plummer-Vinson syndrome Polyarteritis nodosa Pompe's disease Pott's disease Prader-Willi syndrome R Ramsay-Hunt syndrome Raynaud's disease Reiter's syndrome Rett syndrome Reye's syndrome Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome S Say Meyer syndrome Sheehan's syndrome Shy-Drager syndrome Sjögren's syndrome Stevens-Johnson syndrome T Tay-Sachs disease Tetralogy of Fallot Thygeson's superficial punctate keratopathy Tietze's syndrome Todd's palsy Tourette syndrome Treacher Collins syndrome Turcot syndrome Turner syndrome V Von Gierke's disease Von Hippel-Lindau disease Von Willebrand disease W Waardenburg syndrome Warkany syndrome Wegener's granulomatosis Weissenbacher-Zweymuller syndrome Werner syndrome Wernicke's encephalopathy Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome Whipple's disease Williams syndrome Wilms' tumor Wilson's disease Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome Z Zellweger syndrome Zieve's syndrome Zollinger-Ellison syndrome