List of Diseases Named After People
Article Index
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G
- Gaucher's disease
- Ghon focus ? Anton Ghon
- Gilbert syndrome ? Augustin Nicolas Gilbert, French gastroenterologist
- Graves' disease
- Graves-Basedow disease ? Robert James Graves, Karl Adolph von Basedow
- Grawitz tumor (nephrocellular carcinoma) ? Paul Albert Grawitz, German pathologist
- Guam disease
- Guillain-Barr? syndrome ? Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barr?
- Gunther's disease
H
- Hardikar Syndrome
- Hailey-Hailey disease
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Hansen disease ? Gerhard Armauer Hansen
- Hartnup disease
- Hashimoto thyroiditis ? Hakaru Hashimoto
- Heyde's syndrome
- Hirschsprung disease ? Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician
- Hodgkin disease, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ? Thomas Hodgkin
- Horton headache
- Huntington's disease
- Henoch-Sch?nlein purpura
J
- Jaeken's disease
- Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
K
- Kahler's disease
- Kanner syndrome ? Leo Kanner (this name is rarely used now)
- Kaposi sarcoma ? Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist
- Kashin-Beck disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Kenny syndrome
- Keshen disease
- Kienbock's disease
- Kikuchi's disease
- Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease
- Kimura's disease
- Kinsbourne's syndrome
- Kjer's optic neuropathy? Poul Kjer, Danish ophthalmologist
- Klatskin's tumor
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Kl?ver-Bucy syndrome
- K?hler's bone disease
- Korsakoff syndrome
- Krabbe's disease
- Kugelberg-Weland disease
- King-Kopetzky syndrome
L
- Lackasushi
- Lafora's disease
- Legg-Calv?-Perthes disease
- Leigh's disease
- Leiner's disease
- Leishmaniasis ? Sir William Boog Leishman
- Len?gre's disease
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
- Letterer-Siwe disease
- Lev's disease
- Libman-Sacks disease
- Lobomycosis
- L?ffler's eosinophilic endocarditis
- Lou Gehrig's disease
- Ludwig's angina
- Lynch syndrome
M
- Machado-Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3)
- Maladie de Charcot, French name for Motor Neurone Disease ? Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist
- Mallory-Weiss syndrome ? G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss
- Mansonellosis ? Sir Patrick Manson
- Marburg multiple sclerosis ? Otto Marburg
- Marfan syndrome
- Marshall-Smith syndrome ? Richard E. Marshall and David Weyhe Smith
- McArdle's Disease
- McCune-Albright syndrome ? Donovan James McCune and Fuller Albright
- Meig's syndrome ? Joe Vincent Meigs
- M?n?trier's disease
- M?ni?re?s disease ? Prosper Meniere
- Menkes disease
- Minamata disease ? Minamata, Japan
- Mondor's disease
- Monge's disease
- Mucha-Habermann disease
N
- Naxos disease
- Noonan syndrome
O
- Ondine's curse
- Ormond disease
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osler-Weber-Rendu (Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia)
P
- Paget's disease of bone (* Paget's disease)
- Paget's disease of the breast (* Paget's disease of the nipple)
- Paget's disease of the penis
- Parkinson's disease ? Dr. James Parkinson
- Patau syndrome
- Pelizeus-Merzbacher disease ? Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus and Ludwig Merzbacher
- Perthes syndrome
- Peyronie's disease ? Fran?ois Gigot de la Peyronie
- Pick's disease ? Arnold Pick
- Pickardt syndrome
- Plummer's disease
- Poland's syndrome ? Sir Alfred Poland
- Pompe's disease ? Johann Cassianius Pompe
- Pott's disease ? Percivall Pott
- Pott's Puffy Tumor ? Percivall Pott
- Potter's syndrome ? Dr. Edith Potter
- Prader-Willi syndrome ? Dr. Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Dr. Heinrich Willi
- Prinzmetal angina ? Myron Prinzmetal