List of Diseases Named After People
Article Index
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R
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome ? James Ramsay Hunt, American neurologist
- Raynaud's disease ? Maurice Raynaud, French physician
- Refsum's disease
- Reiter's syndrome
- Rett Syndrome ? Andreas Rett, Austrian pediatrician
- Reye's syndrome
- Rickettsiosis - Howard Taylor Ricketts
- Riggs' disease ? John M. Riggs (dentist)
- Riley-Day syndrome
- Ritter's disease
- Robles Disease (Onchocercosis ) ? Rodolfo Robles, Guatemalan physician
- Roger's disease
- Rotor syndrome ? Arturo Belleza Rotor, Filipino internist
- Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome
S
- Salmonella ? Daniel Elmer Salmon
- Sandhoff's disease
- Scahmberg's disease
- Schilder's disease
- Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome ? Drs. Albert Schinzel and Andreas Giedion, who first described the syndrome in a professional journal
- Seligmann's disease
- Sever's disease
- Silver-Russel syndrome
- Simmond's Disease
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Sturge-Weber disease
- Still's disease
- Susac's syndrome
T
- Takayasu's arteritis
- Tangier disease
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Theileriosis ? Sir Arnold Theiler
- Thomsen's disease
- Tietze's syndrome
- Tourette syndrome ? Georges Albert ?douard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette
- Treacher Collins syndrome is the common name for mandibulofacial dysostosis
- Turcot syndrome
- Turner's syndrome ? Henry Turner
U
- Unverricht-Lundborg disease
V
- Vincent's angina
- Virchow's syndrome
- Von Gierke's disease
- Von Hippel-Lindau disease ? Dr. Eugen von Hippel; Arvid Vilhelm Lindau, Swedish pathologist
- Von Recklinghausen's disease (* neurofibromatosis)
- Von Willebrand's disease ? Erik Adolf von Willebrand
W
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia
- Warkany syndrome (trisomy)
- Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
- Weber-Christian disease
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Weil's disease-Adolf Weil
- Wells syndrome George Wells
- Werner's syndrome
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
- Whipple's disease ? George Hoyt Whipple
- Williams syndrome
- William Strauss disease
- Wilms' tumor ? Dr Max Wilms, a German surgeon
- Wilson's disease
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome ? Alfred Wiskott, Robert Aldrich
- Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- Wolman disease
X Y Z
- Zieve's syndrome
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
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