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.

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)
• Artery of Adamkiewicz
• Auerbach's plexus

B

• Bachmann's bundle
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
• Batson's plexus
• Duct of Bellini - Giovanni Bellini
• Renal columns of Bertin
• Betz cells
• Billroth's cords - Theodor Billroth
• Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman
• Broca's area – Paul Pierre Broca
• Brodmann's areas - Korbinian Brodmann
• Brunner's glands
• Buck's fascia

C

• Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle
• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot, 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

D

• Darwin's tubercle
• Campbell de Morgan spots
• Denonvillier's fascia
• Space of Disse
• Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas

E

• Von Ebner's gland – A. G. von Ebner
• Edinger-Westphal nucleus
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi

F

• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio

G

• Gallaudet's fascia
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
• Fossa of Geraldi
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre N. Gerdy
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
• Glisson's capsule
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
• Great vein of Galen

H

• Hasner's Fold – Joseph R. Hasner
• Spiral valves of Heister
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
• Canals of Hering
• Hering's nerve
• Herring bodies
• Heschl's gyri
• Hesselbach's triangle
• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
• Houston's muscle – John Houston

K

• Kerckring's valves
• Kernohan notch
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Pores of Kohn
• Krause's end-bulbs
• Kupffer cells

L

• Canals of Lambert
• Islets of Langerhans – Paul Langerhans
• Langer's lines
• Langhans giant cell
• Crypts of Lieberkühn
• Lissauer's tract
• Urethral glands of Littré
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Crypts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Ducts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Foramina of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

• Macewen's triangle - Sir William Macewen
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• Veins of Mayo
• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
• Meckel's cartilage
• Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
• Meissner corpuscles – Georg Meissner
• Meissner's plexus
• Meyer's loop
• Moll's gland – Jacob A. Moll
• Foramina of Monro
• Glands of Montgomery
• Morgagni's hernia - Giovanni Battista Morgagni
• Hydatids of Morgagni
• Lacunae of Morgagni
• Morrison's pouch
• Müllerian ducts – Joh. Müller

O

• Sphincter of Oddi
• Nucleus of Onufrowicz

P

• Paneth cells
• Papez circuit
• Peyer's patches – Johann K. Peyer
• Poupart's ligament
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje

R

• Node of Ranvier
• Rathke's pouch
• Reichert cartilage
• Renshaw cells
• Space of Retzius
• Veins of Retzius
• Richter's hernia
• Riedel's lobe
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
• Rolandic fissure; fissure of Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes
• Ruffini's corpuscles

S

• Duct of Santorini
• Schatzki's ring
• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside who had distinctive whiskers
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Spigelian hernia
• Stensen's duct
• Sylvian aqueduct

T

• Thorel's pathway
• White lines of Toldt
• Traube's space
• Ligament of Trietz

V

• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Virchow-Robin spaces
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

• Waldeyer's throat
• Wenckebach's bundle
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct
• Wharton's jelly
• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
• Foramen of Winslow
• Duct of Wirsung
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm

See also

• List of eponymous diseases
• List of eponymous medical signs
• List of eponymous medical treatments
• Human anatomy
• List of anatomical topics

External link

• Name origins in the medical field