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.

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  • Cajal cell  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (18521934), Spanish pathologist
  • Cajal–Retzius cell  Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (18421919), Swedish histologist
  • Calyx of Held   Hans Held (18661942), German Anatomist
  • Calot's triangle  Jean-François Calot (18611944), 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 (18041879), French physician
  • Clara cell  Max Clara (18991966), German anatomist (renamed to Club cell after Max Clara's Nazi activities were discovered)
  • Cloquet's canal   Jules Cloquet (17901883), French Anatomist
  • Colles' fascia  Abraham Colles (17731843), Irish surgeon
  • Cooper's fascia  Astley Cooper (17681841), English surgeon
  • Inguinal ligament of Cooper or Cooper's iliopectineal ligament  Astley Cooper
  • Cooper's suspensory ligaments  Astley Cooper
  • Organ of Corti  Alfonso Corti (18221876), Italian microanatomist
  • Cowper's glands  William Cowper (16661709), English surgeon-anatomist
  • Cuvier ducts  Georges Cuvier (17691832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist
  • Canals of Lambert - described by Lambert in 1955

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  • Von Ebner's glands  Victor von Ebner (18421925), German histologist
  • Edinger–Westphal nucleus  Ludwig Edinger (18551918), German neuroanatomist, and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (18331890), German neurologist
  • Eustachian tube  Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500 / 1514 / 15201574), Italian anatomist

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  • Hartmann's pouch  Henri Hubert Vadim Hartmann (18601952), German Surgeon
  • Hasner's Fold  Joseph Hasner (18191892), Austrian ophthalmologist
  • Haversian canal  Clopton Havers (16571702), English physician
  • Spiral valves of Heister  Lorenz Heister (16831758), German surgeon-anatomist
  • Loop of Henle  F. G. J. Henle (18091885), German pathologist
  • Canals of Hering  Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (18341918), German physiologist
  • Hering's nerve  Heinrich Ewald Hering (18661948), Austrian physician
  • Herring bodies  Percy Theodore Herring (18721967), English physiologist
  • Heschl's gyri  Richard L. Heschl (18241881), Austrian anatomist
  • Hesselbach's triangle  Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (17591816), German surgeon-anatomist
  • Antrum of Highmore  Nathaniel Highmore (16131685), English surgeon-anatomist
  • Bundle of His  Wilhelm His, Jr. (18631934), Swiss cardiologist
  • Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers)  John Houston (18021845), Irish anatomist
  • Houston's valves   John Houston (1802-1845), Irish anatomist
  • Canal of Huguier  Pierre Charles Huguier (18041878), French surgeon-gynecologist
  • Hurthle cell  Karl Hürthle (18601945), German histologist

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N

  • Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance  Franz Nissl

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V

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  • 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 (16211675), 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

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