Werneck Alexandre Lins, Batigália Fernando
Health Sciences Stricto Sensu Post-Graduate Programme; São José do Rio Preto Medical School (FAMERP).
Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc. 2011 Jan-Mar;26(1):98-106. doi: 10.1590/s0102-76382011000100018.
Eponym from the Greek [epi, "upon"] + [onuma, name], is a person, whether real or fictitious, after whom an item is named or thought to be named. Eponymous terms are used every day in Medicine, in our clinical years, and they have been part of the tradition of Medicine, culture, and history. Despite all the inconvenience, all those who are no against eponym has only one statement: "medical eponyms will continue to be used because there is a sense of history to their use. They are use in contemporary life, eponyms are here to stay".
The following study aims at to show the presence of current anatomical eponyms on the best well-known Textbooks and Atlas of Human Anatomy, ranging from the oldest to the newest one, comprising a period from 1960 until 2011, regarding the cardiovascular system, particularly the heart. The three International Anatomical Terminologies have been critical as the basis of our study. Exclusion criteria were syndromes, diseases, signs, anomalies, surgical procedures, indexes, tests, grading, and the methods, which are used as eponyms in Cardiology, once they are not considered Anatomical Terms. It has been our intent to show that different eponyms characterize the same anatomical structure.
A list with the 25 most common eponyms listed by the three International Anatomical Terminologies is listed in Table1.
Should eponyms be abandoned? Of course not, once they remain a useful reflection of medical history. We could prove to our journey from 1960 to 2011, that the best well-known Atlas and Textbooks available do not use so many anatomical eponyms in Cardiology. They are only 25 (without including arteries, veins, and nerves of the cardiovascular system) and all the authors use no more than 9 or 12 of them. We just want to alert the Health and Allied Health Sciences Professional and students that we 'strongly recommend' not to use an eponym when it is made at the expense of an anatomical structure.
“eponym”一词源于希腊语[epi，意为“在……之上”]+[onuma，意为“名字”]，指一个人，无论真实与否，某个事物以其命名或被认为是以其命名。在医学领域，在我们临床学习的岁月里，以人名命名的术语每天都在使用，它们一直是医学、文化和历史传统的一部分。尽管存在诸多不便，但所有不反对使用以人名命名术语的人都只有一个观点：“医学上的人名命名术语将继续被使用，因为使用它们能带来一种历史感。它们在当代生活中仍在使用，以人名命名的术语会一直存在”。
以下研究旨在展示在从最古老到最新的、涵盖1960年至2011年期间的最著名的人体解剖学教科书和图谱中，当前心血管系统（特别是心脏）解剖学上以人名命名术语的存在情况。三种国际解剖学术语集一直是我们研究的关键基础。排除标准包括综合征、疾病、体征、异常、外科手术、索引、测试、分级以及在心脏病学中用作以人名命名术语的方法，因为它们不被视为解剖学术语。我们的目的是表明不同的以人名命名的术语描述的是相同的解剖结构。
表1列出了三种国际解剖学术语集列出的25个最常见的以人名命名的术语。
是否应该摒弃以人名命名的术语？当然不，因为它们仍然是医学历史的有益反映。我们可以证明，从1960年到2011年，现有的最著名的图谱和教科书在心脏病学中使用的解剖学上以人名命名的术语并不多。只有25个（不包括心血管系统的动脉、静脉和神经），而且所有作者使用的不超过9个或12个。我们只是想提醒健康及相关健康科学专业人员和学生，我们“强烈建议”在以牺牲解剖结构为代价来命名时不要使用以人名命名的术语。
