List of Diseases Named After People

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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

 

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