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Surgery named after Frederic Mohs, so

Posted By: annabanana on 2008-06-27
In Reply to: Moh's procedure nm - Chavera

Subject: Surgery named after Frederic Mohs, so

no apostrophe after the h.


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Mohs surgery named after .......
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just FYI, named after Frederick Mohs...
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could it be MOHS surgery?? they use it for basal cell carcinoma.
Subject: could it be MOHS surgery?? they use it for basal cell carcinoma.


hmm, not sure, Mohs is a type of surgery, this sounds more like lab data...sm
Subject: hmm, not sure, Mohs is a type of surgery, this sounds more like lab data...sm

Thanks will research further to see if I can find Mohs count. 
named after a man named Schmorl.....sm
Subject: named after a man named Schmorl.....sm

Schmorl's nodes

Also known as:
Schmorl's nodule

Associated persons:
Christian Georg Schmorl


Description:
Protrusion of the vertebral disc into the vertebra in adolescent kyphosis. They are usually asymptomatic and begin as a defect of the cortex or the vertebral body endplate of a vertebra, followed by fissures and protrusion of the nucleus pulposus.


http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/2377.html


Mohs
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Mohs (nm)
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Mohs
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MOHS
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That's it!  Thanks so much for your help!
Mohs?
Subject: Mohs?


Mohs' per Dorland
Subject: Mohs' per Dorland


Stedman's just has Mohs (no ')
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1:100,000 epinephrine - Mohs'
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Subject: Mohs procedure

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Mohs chemosurgery is as follows:
Subject: Mohs chemosurgery is as follows:

a technique for removal of skin tumors with minimum or normal tissue, by prior necrosis, etc., excision and microscopic examination of frozen section of thin horizontal layers of tissue, until all of the tumor is removed.   I thouight this might be it.  Maybe not. 
No - not unless a company is named.
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it's apostrophe s when named after anyone....sm
Subject: it's apostrophe s when named after anyone....sm

regardless of what the AAMT says......
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Subject: I don't capitalize them ever unless they are named after someone

i.e.

functional disorder
Gaucher disorder
gender identity disorders
generalized anxiety disorder
grandiose type of paranoid disorder
Hartnup disorder
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Subject: Perhaps this, named after a doctor.

copy & paste the link:


http://www.drhealth.net/therapies/rife.html


Lots of other stuff on the net.


Yes, gray was named in honor of....
Subject: Yes, gray was named in honor of....

scientist, but it is not capitalized -- like you do for most eponynms. There are lots of sites on the internet defining radiation terms if you really want to read up on them.

It is named after a gentleman with the last name of "Waller"
Subject: It is named after a gentleman with the last name of "Waller"

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see link inside for who it was named for....sm
Subject: see link inside for who it was named for....sm






Robert James Graves (1707-1853)
Irish physician, born March 27, 1797, Dublin; died March 20, 1853, Dublin.

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named after John Homans.....
Subject: named after John Homans.....

Biography:
John Homans worked on experimental hypophysectomy with Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) at Johns Hopkins. Homans, Cushing and Samuel James Crowe (1883-1955) in 1910 presented the first evidence of the relationship between the pituitary and the reproductive system. Homans later became interested in peripheral vascular disease.

His wife was Helen Perkins Homans. Their daughter Helen Homans died of pneumonia on November 22, 1916, while serving as a nurse with the Red Cross in France. Homans' three sons all graduated from Harvard.

from whonamedit.com
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based on other meds named...
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same poster here - all iris scissors named after
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IS your patient named Ruby, or can we have the sentence with this in it? nm
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Eli M. named a congenital syndrome - not a culdoplasty procedure nm
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Subject: Drug named s/l centinal for heart condition.

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DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
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it's Graves' disease, named after Robert James Graves(1796–1853), a British physician
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Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer's dementia
Alzheimer's sclerosis
Alzheimer's syndrome
Alzheimer-Perusini disease (misnomer)
Dementia of the Alzheimer type
Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

Synonyms:
Presenile dementia, senile dementia.

Associated persons:
Alois Alzheimer

James Parkinson

English physician and paleontologist, born April 11, 1755, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London; died 1824, London.

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Parkinson's disease
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Parkinson's facies
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