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

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    		• Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
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    		• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
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    		• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Sir Rutherford Alcock
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    		• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
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    		• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
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    		• Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore
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    		• Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
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    		• Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach
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    		• Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann
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    		• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
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    		• Batson's plexus
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    		• Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz
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    		• Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth
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    		• Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman
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    		• Broca's area – Paul Broca
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    		• Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann
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    		• Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner
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    		• Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck
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    		• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr.
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    		• Cajal cells – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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    		• Campbell de Morgan spots
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    		• Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier
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    		• Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering
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    		• Canals of Lambert – Margaret Waugh Lambert
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    		• Castle intrinsic factor – William Bosworth Castle
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    		• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms – Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Joseph Bouchard
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    		• Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac
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    		• Christmas factor – Stephen Christmas
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    		• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
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    		• Clara cell – Max Clara
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    		• Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles
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    		• Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper
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    		• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
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    		• Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
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    		• Cowper's glands – William Cowper
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    		• Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
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    		• Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
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    		• Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier
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    		• Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin
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    		• Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers
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    		• Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini
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    		• Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
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    		• Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung
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    		• Edinger-Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
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    		• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi
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    		• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio
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    		• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
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    		• Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow
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    		• Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro
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    		• Fossa of Geraldi
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    		• Gallaudet's fascia
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    		• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
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    		• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy
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    		• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
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    		• Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
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    		• Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson
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    		• Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi
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    		• Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf
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    		• Great vein of Galen – Galen, an ancient Greek physician
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    		• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
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    		• Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner
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    		• Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering
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    		• Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring
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    		• Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl
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    		• Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach
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    		• Houston's muscle – John Houston
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    		• Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
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    		• Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
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    		• Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring
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    		• Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan
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    		• Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach
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    		• Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
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    		• Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
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    		• Langer's lines
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    		• Langhans giant cell - Theodor Langhans [1]
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    		• Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
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    		• Ligament of Trietz – Václav Treitz
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    		• Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
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    		• Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
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    		• Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell
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    		• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
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    		• Lovibond's angle
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    		• Lund's node
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    		• Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
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    		• Mahdi Nerve- Dr. Mahdi Hasan
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    		• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
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    		• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
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    		• Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum– Johann Friedrich Meckel
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    		• Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
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    		• Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
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    		• Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
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    		• Meyer's loop
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    		• Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
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    		• Möll's gland and Space of Möll – Jacob A. Möll
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    		• Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller
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    		• Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl (all terms now rarely used)
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    		• Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
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    		• Nucleus of Onufrowicz
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    		• Organ of Corti – Alphonso Corti
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    		• Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
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    		• Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
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    		• Papez circuit – James Papez
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    		• Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
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    		• Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
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    		• Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas
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    		• Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
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    		• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
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    		• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
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    		• Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
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    		• Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
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    		• Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin
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    		• Renshaw cells
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    		• Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
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    		• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
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    		• Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
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    		• Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
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    		• Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini
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    		• Rutherford Morrison's subhepatic space
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    		• Schatzki's ring – Richard Schatzki
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    		• Schlieter's Shins
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    		• Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
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    		• Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
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    		• Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
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    		• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside (for his distinctive whiskers)
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    		• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
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    		• Space of Disse – Joseph Disse
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    		• Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
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    		• Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi
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    		• Spigelian fascia – Adriaan van den Spiegel
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    		• Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister
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    		• Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
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    		• Sylvian aqueduct
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    		• Thorel's pathway
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    		• Traube's space – Ludwig Traube
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    		• Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
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    		• Veins of Mayo
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    		• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
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    		• Virchow-Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
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    		• Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner
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    		• Waldeyer's throat – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
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    		• Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach
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    		• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
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    		• Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton
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    		• White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
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    		• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
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    		• Wormian bones – Ole Worm
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    		• Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn

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