The use of the term medical epomym is little understood. The correct definition of the term medical eponym is the person that a disease is named after, not a disease that is named after a person. So, please see below for some details about the lives of some famous and not-so-famous medical eponyms.
Lemmon, William McIntosh: American physician 1920-2002 (Lemmon sternal retractor)
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