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• Achilles' tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal)
• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Artery of Adamkiewicz
• Auerbach's plexus
• Bachmann's bundle
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger
• Batson's plexus
• Betz cells
• Billroth's cords
• Bowman's capsule – Sir William Bowman
• Broca's area – Paul Pierre BrocaPaul Pierre Broca ( June 28, 1824 July 9, 1880) was a French surgeon and anthropologist. He was a prodigy as a child, holding baccalaureate degrees simultaneously in literature, mathematics and physics. He entered the medical school when he was only 17 ye
• Brunner's glands
• Buck's fascia
• Bundle of HisThe bundle of His is a bundle of heart tissues that transmits the electrical impulses from the AV node to the ventricles, causing cardiac muscles in the ventricles to contract. These specialized muscle fibres in the heart was named after Swiss cardiologis – Wilhelm His, Jr.Wilhelm His, Jr. born December 29, 1863, died November 10, 1934) was a Swiss-born cardiologist and anatomist. In 1893, he discovered the bundle of His, which is a specialized tissue in the heart that transmits the electrical impulses and helps synchronize
• Calot's triangle
• Canals of Hering
• Canals of Lambert
• Cantlie's line
• Carabelli's tubercle
• Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms
• Circle of WillisThe circle of Willis is a circle of blood arteries supplying the brain. It is formed by both the internal carotid arteries and the basilar artery. It was named after Thomas Willis, a London doctor in the 17th century. After the internal carotid arteries e – Thomas WillisThomas Willis ( 1621- 1673) was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of the science of anatomy and was a co-founder of the Royal Society ( 1662). Willis worked as a physician in Westminster, London, and from 1660 until his death w
• Colles' fascia
• Cooper's hernia
• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament
• Cooper's ligamentsCooper's ligaments are the connective tissue in the breast that holds them up. As any ligament, over time, they may lose strength and tension in the elderly—especially so in females. That makes the breast hang down with the years. Samuel Shem (author of t
• Cowper's glands – William Cowper
• Crypts of Lieberkühn
• Crypts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Darwin's tubercle
• Denonvillier's fascia
• Douglas' Pouch – James Douglas
• Duct of Santorini
• Duct of Wirsung
• Ducts of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Edinger-Westphal nucleus
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi
• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• Foramen of Winslow
• Foramina of Luschka – Hubert von Luschka
• Foramina of Monro
• Fossa of Geraldi
• Gallaudet's fascia
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Gartner
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre N. Gerdy
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota
• Glands of Montgomery
• Glisson's capsule
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg
• Great vein of Galen
• Hasner's Fold – Joseph R. Hasner
• Hering's nerve
• Herring bodies
• Heschl's gyri
• Hesselbach's triangle
• Houston's muscle – John Houston
• Hydatids of Morgagni
• Islets of Langerhans – Paul Langerhans
• Kerckring's valves
• Kernohan notch
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Krause's end-bulbs
• Kupffer cells
• Lacunae of Morgagni
• Langer's lines
• Langhans giant cell
• Ligament of Trietz
• Lissauer's tract
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi
• Meckel's cartilage
• Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
• Meissner corpuscles – Georg Meissner
• Meissner's plexus
• Meyer's loop
• Moll's gland – Jacob A. Moll
• Morgagni's hernia
• Morrison's pouch
• Müllerian ducts
• Nucleus of Onufrowicz
• Paneth cells
• Papez circuit
• Peyer's patches – Johann K. Peyer
• Pores of Kohn
• Pouch of Douglas
• Poupart's ligament
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
• Rathke's pouch
• Reed-Sternberg cell – Dorothy Reed , Carl von Sternberg or George M. Sternberg
• Reichert cartilage
• Renal columns of Bertin
• Renshaw cells
• Richter's hernia
• Riedel's lobe
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
• Rolandic fissure; fissure of Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes
• Ruffini's corpuscles
• Schatzki's ring
• Sideburns – General Ambrose Burnside who had distinctive whiskers
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Space of Disse
• Space of Retzius
• Sphincter of Oddi
• Spigelian hernia
• Spiral valves of Heister
• Stensen's duct
• Sylvian aqueduct
• Thorel's pathway
• Traube's space
• Urethral glands of Littré
• Veins of Mayo
• Veins of Retzius
• Virchow-Robin spaces
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
• Von Ebner's gland – A. G. von Ebner
• Waldeyer's throat
• Wenckebach's bundle
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct
• Wharton's jelly
• White lines of Toldt
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm