List of human anatomical parts named after people

This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

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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

• Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Sir Rutherford Alcock
• Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
• Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach

B

• Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
• Batson's plexus
• Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell
• Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini
• Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin
• Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz
• Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth
• Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman
• Broca's area – Paul Broca
• Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann
• Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner
• Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck

C

• Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle
• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Joseph Bouchard
• Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac
• Christmas factor – Stephen Christmas
• Clara cell – Max Clara
• Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles
• Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper
• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
• Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
• Organ of Corti – Alphonso Corti
• Cowper's glands – William Cowper
• Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier

D

• Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin
• Campbell de Morgan spots
• Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers
• Space of Disse – Joseph Disse
• Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas

E

• Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner
• Edinger-Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi

F

• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio

G

• Gallaudet's fascia
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
• Fossa of Geraldi
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
• Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson
• Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi
• Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
• Great vein of Galen – Galen, an ancient Greek physician

H

• Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner
• Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
• Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering
• Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering
• Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring
• Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl
• Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach
• Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore
• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
• Houston's muscle – John Houston
• Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier

K

• Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring
• Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan
• Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach
• Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
• Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
• Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer

L

• Canals of Lambert – Margaret Waugh Lambert
• Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
• Langhans giant cell - Theodor Langhans [1]
• Langer's lines
• Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
• Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
• Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
• Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
• Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

• Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• Veins of Mayo
• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
• Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum– Johann Friedrich Meckel
• Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
• Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
• Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
• Meyer's loop
• Möll's gland and Space of Möll – Jacob A. Möll
• Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro
• Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
• Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
• Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
• Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller
• Mahdi Nerve- Dr. Mahdi Hasan

N

• Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl (all terms now rarely used)

O

• Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi
• Nucleus of Onufrowicz

P

• Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
• Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
• Papez circuit – James Papez
• Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
• Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje

R

• Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
• Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
• Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
• Renshaw cells
• Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
• Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
• Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
• Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini
• Rutherford Morrison's subhepatic space

S

• Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
• Schatzki's ring – Richard Schatzki
• Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
• Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
• Schlieter's Shins
• Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside (for his distinctive whiskers)
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Spigelian fascia – Adriaan van den Spiegel
• Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
• Sylvian aqueduct

T

• Thorel's pathway
• White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
• Traube's space – Ludwig Traube
• Ligament of Trietz – Václav Treitz

V

• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Virchow-Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

• Waldeyer's throat – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
• Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton
• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
• Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow
• Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm

Z

• Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn

See also

• List of eponymous diseases
• List of eponymous medical signs
• List of eponymous medical treatments
• Lists of etymologies
• Human anatomy
• List of anatomical topics