{"id":795,"date":"2009-03-19T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.onegoodcookie.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-03-19T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:15:00","slug":"l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2009\/03\/l\/","title":{"rendered":"L"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
Lemmon, William McIntosh:<\/b> American physician 1920-2002 (Lemmon sternal retractor)
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n