Paramedical Workers: The meticulous observations of paramedical staff have made important contributions, for example, Sister Mary Joseph's nodules Patients: Patients have been immortalized by having ...

When looking at disruption in the eyewear space, most people talk about Warby Parker. That is because Warby Parker is cutting out the middleman and selling eyewear directly to consumers. However, ...

Hello! I just learned a new term called a "proprietary eponym." It's a brand name that is so synonymous with a generic item that it basically becomes the defining word for that product. And I can't ...

IF you enjoy learning about a word’s origin, you will find eponyms interesting. While some eponyms are well known, others may only be familiar to people who understand a certain cultural reference.

Scientific eponyms—concepts named after individuals, such as Avogadro's number or Maxwell's equations—are one of the few means for achieving some form of immortality (see lists of some of these here, ...

Trish Donnelly, CEO of Urban Outfitters, Inc., has joined the Board of Directors of eponym, an open platform provider that empowers contemporary brands including Steven Alan, alice + olivia and Jason ...

While the world (at least the Us Weekly-reading portion of it) waits with bated breath to learn what Snooki names her yet-to-be-born child — Frankie, Isabella, Giana, and Jionni Jr. are her top ...

Eponyms are names that have become immortalized in well known words, such as syphilis, sadism and masochism. We’ll get to those, but let’s start with a favorite, bogart, which is slang for hogging ...

A longstanding tradition in medicine rewards people by naming diseases, procedures, and other noteworthy discoveries after them. Alas, remembering them all is a huge headache for anyone who’s studying ...

According to a list in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, there are 317 scheduled commercial airports around the world (out of a total of 4037 according to OAG/ACI [2013]) which are named after a ...