List of human anatomical parts named after people

This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people. These are often called 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

B

  • Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist
  • Balbiani bodies – Édouard-Gérard Balbiani
  • Barr bodies – Murray Barr (1908-1995), Canadian physician
  • Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
  • Batson's plexus – Oscar Vivian Batson (1894–1979), American anatomist
  • Valve of Bauhin – Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624), Swiss physicians and botanist
  • Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist
  • Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian anatomist
  • Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin (1712–1781), French anatomist
  • Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (1834–1894), Ukrainian histologist
  • Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), Austrian surgeon
  • Bowman's capsule and Bowman's layer – Sir William Bowman (1816–1892), English surgeon-anatomist
  • Broca's area – Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon-anatomist
  • Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), German neurologist
  • Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), Swiss anatomist
  • Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck (1807–1877), American surgeon

C

  • Cajal cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist
  • Cajal–Retzius cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), Swedish histologist
  • Calyx of Held –  Hans Held (1866–1942), German Anatomist
  • Calot's triangle – Jean-François Calot (1861–1944), French surgeon
  • Fascia of Camper - Petrus Camper (1722-1789), Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist
  • Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac (1804–1879), French physician
  • Chopart's joint – François Chopart (1743–1795), French surgeon
  • Clara cell – Max Clara (1899–1966), German anatomist (renamed to Club cell after Max Clara's Nazi activities were discovered)
  • Cloquet's canal –  Jules Cloquet (1790–1883), French Anatomist
  • Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Irish surgeon
  • Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon
  • Inguinal ligament of Cooper or Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
  • Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
  • Organ of Corti – Alfonso Corti (1822–1876), Italian microanatomist
  • Cowper's glands – William Cowper (1666–1709), English surgeon-anatomist
  • Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist
  • Canals of Lambert - described by Lambert in 1955

D

E

F

G

H

  • Hartmann's pouch – Henri Hubert Vadim Hartmann (1860–1952), German Surgeon
  • Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist
  • Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician
  • Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), German surgeon-anatomist
  • Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle (1809–1885), German pathologist
  • Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), German physiologist
  • Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866–1948), Austrian physician
  • Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring (1872–1967), English physiologist
  • Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist
  • Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759–1816), German surgeon-anatomist
  • Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore (1613–1685), English surgeon-anatomist
  • Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr. (1863–1934), Swiss cardiologist
  • Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers) – John Houston (1802–1845), Irish anatomist
  • Houston's valves –  John Houston (1802-1845), Irish anatomist
  • Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier (1804–1878), French surgeon-gynecologist
  • Hurthle cell – Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German histologist

I

K

L

M

N

  • Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

  • Waldeyer's tonsillar ring – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist
  • Weibel–Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel (1929–2019), Swiss biologist, and George Emil Palade (1912–2008), Romanian-American cell biologist
  • Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), Dutch anatomist
  • Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
  • Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton (1614–1673), English physician and anatomist
  • Circle of Willis – arterial circle in base of brain – Dr. Thomas Willis (1621–1675), English physician
  • Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow (1669–1760), Danish-born French anatomist
  • Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung (1589–1643), German anatomist
  • Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist
  • Wormian bones – Ole Worm (1588–1654), Danish scientist

Z

See also

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