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

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

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