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408 Glossary of eponyms

Trendelenburg’s test◊Aclinical test for hip Wharton’s duct◊The duct of the submandibular
stability. salivary gland.
Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844–1924), Thomas Wharton (?1616–1673), physician at St
Professor of Surgery, Leipzig. He attempted a Thomas’s Hospital, London. His name is also
pulmonary embolectomy (unsuccessfully) in given to the mucoid substance of the umbilical
1908. cord (Wharton’s jelly).
the bloodless fold of Treves◊The ileocaecal fold. circle of Willis◊The arterial anastomosis at the
Sir Frederick Treves (1853–1923), surgeon at base of the brain.
the London Hospital. Drained the appendix Thomas Willis (1621–1675), practised
abscess of King Edward VII in 1902. medicine in Oxford and then London. Buried
ampulla of Vater◊The ampulla of the common in Westminster Abbey.
bile duct. foramen of Winslow◊The opening into the
Abraham Vater (1684–1751), Professor of lesser sac (epiploic foramen).
Anatomy, Wittenberg. Jacob Winslow (1669–1760), born in Denmark
Volkmann’s contracture◊Produced by and became Professor of Anatomy and
ischaemic fibrosis of the forearm muscles. Surgery in Paris.
Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889), Professor Wirsung’s duct◊The main pancreatic duct.
of Surgery in Halle and one of the pioneers of Johann Wirsung (1600–1643), Professor of
Lister’s antiseptic surgical technique. Anatomy in Padua, where he was
Waldeyer’s ring◊The ring of lymphoid tissue assassinated!
comprising the nasopharyngeal tonsil, the Wolffian body and ducts◊The mesonephros and
palatine tonsils and the lymphoid nodules on its ducts.
the dorsum of the tongue. Caspar Wolff (1733–1794), born in Berlin,
Heinrich Waldeyer (1836–1921), Professor of Professor of Anatomy in St Petersburg. One of
Anatomy, first in Strasbourg and then Berlin. the pioneers of embryology.
He also described the plasma cell in 1875. Wormian bones◊Occasional accessory
Wernicke’s speech area◊Superior area of the bones between the parietal and occipital
temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex. bones.
Karl Wernicke (1848–1904), psychiatrist, first Ole Worm (1588–1654), Professor of Anatomy,
in Breslau then Halle, Germany. Copenhagen.