2010
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.281
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“…This alternative terminology shifts the focus to the key feature of NS: An expanding pituitary corticotroph tumor as the primary clinical problem occurring subsequent to removal of both adrenal glands (BADX). However, NS is well established as medical eponym, and a change in medical terminology is difficult to achieve (12). Therefore, we suggest keeping NS as a supplement to CTP.…”
Section: History Terminology and Key Featuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This alternative terminology shifts the focus to the key feature of NS: An expanding pituitary corticotroph tumor as the primary clinical problem occurring subsequent to removal of both adrenal glands (BADX). However, NS is well established as medical eponym, and a change in medical terminology is difficult to achieve (12). Therefore, we suggest keeping NS as a supplement to CTP.…”
Section: History Terminology and Key Featuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Doctors who want to do away with eponyms in medicine maintain they can cause confusion (Garrison, 1909;Mora and Bosch, 2010;Woywodt and Matteson, 2007). For example, a rare thyroid disorder and an inflammation of the tendons in the hand are both called de Quervain's disease (Woywodt and Matteson, 2007).…”
Section: Confusionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Doctors who want to keep eponyms in the medical lexicon say they are a useful shorthand and mnemonic for groups of phenotypic effects that vary and are difficult to remember (Burchell, 1985;Mora and Bosch, 2010). To make the point, Whitworth (2007: 425) rhetorically asks her colleagues if they would they rather say someone has "violent muscular jerks of the face, shoulders, and extremities with spasmodic grunting, explosive noises, or coprolalia," or simply say that that person has "Tourette's syndrome.…”
Section: Shorthandmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The words “~~ sign,” which was the most popular form of eponyms, represents the naming of a disease or condition after a person or a place 1, 2. Although it is useful in diagnosis and a way to honor eminent physicians with an illness, symptom, or anatomical area named after them, it resulted in vague definitions of eponyms 1, 2.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although it is useful in diagnosis and a way to honor eminent physicians with an illness, symptom, or anatomical area named after them, it resulted in vague definitions of eponyms 1, 2. Several studies refer to the “sign” from a clinical viewpoint, but none have fully evaluated and catalogued “signs” from a scientific viewpoint 3, 4, 5.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%