[Caution] This app contains disease pictures that you may feel uncomfortable with, but it is just the best way for you to learn eponymous disease. If you are a medical student, a medical provider or a nurse for any length of time, you will come across eponyms. Eponyms are diseases, disorders, procedures or equipment that is named for some person. For example, you will not be asking for a indwelling urinary catheter, you will be asking for a Foley catheter. When a patient went to the operating room for a pancreaticoduodenenectomy, modified or not, it was not called that, it was called a Whipple’s surgery. If a patient was at doctor’s and s/he said, your tests have come back, it would be unlikely for her to say you have an inflammatory B-cell lymphoma, rather she would say, you have Hodgkin’s disease. Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honor: "Eponymity, not anonymity, is the standard." The scientific and medical communities regard it as bad form to attempt to eponymise oneself. To discuss something, it must have a name. At a time when medicine lacked tools to investigate underlying causes of many syndromes, the eponym was a convenient way to label a disease. Some diseases are named after the person who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig's disease, Hartnup disease, and Mortimer's disease. There are at least two eponymous disorders which follow neither of these conventions: Fregoli delusion, and Munchausen syndrome.
Crashes
Tons of eponyms. Basic and Pro versions crash after every viewing of an eponym. Would be a very neat app if this was fixed.
Educational and fun
It definitely makes learning more fun especially for visual learners like me
Good app
Good app for looking up different syndromes.
With pictures
Very interesting app to learn various disease, impressive pictures
Learning Beyond the Eponym
Using the app I found it not only easy to use, but interesting in that if you want to learn more after reading a brief synopsis over eponym of choice, you have the option in reading more about it through Wikipedia. Like all health-sciences related apps, there is always room for improvement.
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Useful app
Helps to know the proper terms. Still undecided about the UI and wonder if there is a better way to give an option for a list to look at?
Over 115,600 users are using Eponyms to learn a wide variety of disease by pictures - the most effective way to memorize and make sense of a disease. 1. Bookmark the diseases 2. Zoom into the very detailed HD images
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