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	Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
		An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name.
		Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (trademark or service mark) which has fallen into general use.
		Editor's Note: Xerox is one of the few proprietary eponyms that appears as readily in verb form as in any other parts of speech.
	www.prairienet.org /~rkrause/brands.html (946 words)

	alphaDictionary * Eponyms - Words from Names of People
		An eponym as we will use the term here is a proper noun—the name of a person or place—from which a regular common noun that is derived.
		This list is not competing to be the longest list of eponyms but the most accurate in the strictest sense of the word.
		Beware those lists that include words created by means that apply to any proper noun and the refer exclusively to the eponymous person or simply names one unique object.
	www.alphadictionary.com /articles/eponyms/index.html (873 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of human anatomical parts named after people (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item.
		For clarity entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L. The loop of Henle is a section of the nephron that leads from the proximal convoluted tubule to the distal convoluted tubule in the kidney.
		Eponymous medical signs are medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient with the signs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-human-anatomical-parts-named-after-people (3003 words)

	Astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
		The list does not include astronomical objects named after mythological or fictional characters.
		For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/astronomical_objects_named_after_people (239 words)

	Glossary of Eponyms
		Although eponyms should be avoided, they are in frequent use and a guide to their meaning is useful.
		This glossary provides a list of anatomical eponyms, many of which are in common usage.
		Biographical notes concerning the workers commemorated in this glossary are given by Dobson, as are citations of the publications in which the structures are described.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~humananatomy/resources/glossary.html (2457 words)

	List of eponyms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name.
		The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving name".
		An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_eponyms (2080 words)

	List of eponyms
		Eponym; List of eponyms; List of eponyms (L-Z) A. List of adages named after people; List of eponymous adjectives in...
		We have chosen to list the most commonly used eponyms as main entries, with alternative eponyms linked to their respective main entries.
		An eponym is someone or something whose name is or is thought to be the source of something's name (such as a city, country, era, or product); alternately it can be used to refer to the name of...
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/List_of_eponyms (353 words)

	eponym - Research the news about eponym - from HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An eponym is a person after whom something is named, such as a building, an institution, an organization, a machine, a product, or a process.
		She took as a given that the terms of Rhodian eponyms were annual and that all Rhodian eponyms of the 3rd and early 2nd century were known...
		The eponym the Felty syndrome was established in the English literature...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=LEXICOM&q=eponym (1017 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of eponyms (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The word is back-formed from "eponymous", which in turn is from the Greek word "eponymos" meaning "giving name".
		A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - Z An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.
		Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 â€“ February 24, 1825), an English physician, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowdlerise), the process of censorship by arbitrary deletion of objectionable material from a work of literature to purify it.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-eponyms (9065 words)

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		An eponym is generally an older term associated with a person's name who may or may not have had anything significant to do with the actual origin of the term.
		A list of common eponyms is supplied at the end of your text and eponyms are included in each unit vocabulary list.
		Eponyms can be recognized by the capitalization of the individual's name in the term.
	daphne.palomar.edu /cfrancis/docs/studyskills.htm (2699 words)

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	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /list_of_eponyms.htm (294 words)

	List of eponymous diseases
		Most often, their namesakes discovered or described the disease, while occasionally the disease is named after the first patient described (Christmas disease) or the place where it was first identified (Bornholm disease).
		The proliferation of eponyms in medicine is partly due to the fact that until recently the exact cause of many diseases was a mystery.
		List of eponyms for a complete list of eponyms sorted by name
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/l/li/list_of_eponymous_diseases.html (323 words)

	Freeware Palm: Eponyms v1.85
		Eponyms is fast, accurate and concise, everything a handheld reference should be...
		Eponyms are also still used in MCQ and face to face examinations.
		Even though the emphasis in the last few years has been away from the use of eponyms, they exist in our literature and in common usage, and will be around forever.
	www.freewarepalm.com /medical/eponyms.shtml (606 words)

	CP2: Secular Chronology
		If the versions of the King List of Manetho according to Africanus and Eusebius be compared, it will be seen that they do not agree in the arrangement of the dynasties, or in the lengths of the reigns of the kings, or in the total number of kings assigned to the different dynasties.
		If the List of Kings were perfectly preserved this would not be the case; as it is, the principal evidence by which the general date of this dynasty is fixed consists of two passages in cylinders of Nabonidus.
		From the altered list, we would still establish that the eclipse was on -720 March 19, and we would still have the same apparent verification of the king list.
	becomingone.org /cp/cp2.htm (15082 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Reference Reviews - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They have not only the definition of the eponym, its synonyms and the name of the person after whom the disease, syndrome, procedure, etc. was named, but also related references to books and journal articles and linked biographies that are often very substantial.
		For example, for Münchhausen syndrome WNI lists such "also known as" formats as Ahasverus syndrome (this is probably the Norwegian spelling of the Biblical name, which is Ahasuerus in English literature and refers to the Wandering Jew) and van Gogh's syndrome.
		It is a good idea to have a separate list for eponyms originating from the names of women, even though "Cinderella, Cinderalla" and "Lisa, Mona" look odd on the list of 68 entries.
	www.galegroup.com /servlet/HTMLFileServlet?imprint=9999®ion=7&fileName=reference/archive/200208/eponym.html (2209 words)

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		Students will study their list of forty eponyms and decide on several categories into which the eponyms could be placed.
		For each eponym they find, students need to list the definition and word origin in the same way as they did for the word origin research.
		Upon completion of the eponym research, students will be assigned to teams and will continue their work on the written and oral presentation part of the unit.
	ali.apple.com /ali/uops_display.php?findunit=1491 (1389 words)

	Book - Dictionary of Medical Eponyms -Second Edition - CRC
		Down syndrome for example was not used in the 1950s and only Mongolism was listed in the indices of textbooks at that time.
		The Plummer-Vinson syndrome as it is known in the United States and Australia is referred to as the Patterson-Kelly syndrome in the United Kingdom and the Waldenstrom-Kjellberg syndrome in Scandinavia.
		This book is an endeavor to list eponyms used in the practice of internal medicine in most of the English-speaking countries in the world.
	www.focusonethics.com /dictionaryofmedicaleponyms.html (250 words)

	www.whonamedit.com
		To find a particular eponym, you may either browse through the categories or perform a free text-search.
		In addition, all eponyms relevant to a particular person are listed in his or her biography.
		We have chosen to list the most commonly used eponyms as main entries, with alternative eponyms linked to their respective main entries.
	www.whonamedit.com (318 words)

	Andrew Yee's Medical Eponyms for the Palm OS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Andrew Yee's Medical Eponyms for the Palm OS Medical Eponyms for the Palm OS Here's a list of 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions.
		Please note that the eponyms program is not compatible with Handera or TRG Pro devices.
		Eponyms as a pdf or in alternative formats for Palm or Pocket PC, e.g.
	eponyms.net /eponyms.htm (149 words)

	Alibris: Eponyms
		For example "sandwich" is an eponymous word from the eponym, Earl of Sandwich, the man who invented sandwiches.
		Coined about a century ago, the term eponym is a product of two Greek words, epi, "on" or "upon, " and onama, "a name." But its broadened meaning, as dictionaries set it out, refers to a work derived from a proper name.
		This fascinating compilation of eponyms and toponyms, words derived from people and places, is filled with histories of everyday words accompanied by b&w illustrations.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Eponyms (842 words)

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		These consist of nine main cuneiform manuscript sources for the "Lists" and ten for the "Chronicles," most made up of fragments or being themselves merely fragments, six and nine respectively from Nineveh, two "Lists" from Assur, and a useful additional tablet of each type from the excavations at Sultantepe.
		George Smith (1875) had included some data of the third type from dated texts arranged chronologically, and Ungnad (1938) had included an alphabetical list of eponyms with their dates and a summary of what was known about them, thereby providing an index to the lists.
	www.asor.org /pubs/basor/297.html (13036 words)

	List of eponyms (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=List_of_eponyms (3436 words)

	Eponyms Etcetra
		Thus the term maverick was first applied to an unbranded animal that stood out from the herd and later by extension to a person who stood out in a crowd because of his views or beliefs.
		Before the Puritans arrived to establish Boston in 1630, one Sam Maverick is believed to have been living on a nearby island.
		My favourite nymph is however 'eponym' and this blog is dedicated to eponyms.
	blogs.rediff.com /scripts/blog_rss.phtml?blogName=wordlover&blogId=1063450621 (1795 words)

	The time of the purely cuneiform documents
		Stating a regressive list of those eponyms from the end (the middle of the 7th century B.C.E) till the eponymate of Bur Sagale.
		This list may be joined to the Babylonian part of Canon Basileion.
		There are more possibilities in finding termini for the solar eclipse involved: joining eponym number 80 with the Canon, using the other TPQ's and TAQ's I noted, but that is not necessary for me. I found the limits of the precise dating of the solar eclipse involved, and I'll do two things.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cplawassist/paper/20000.html (854 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Indo-European: Germanic: English (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Be/Have paradigm with intransitive verbs during the Restoration period - A Master's thesis from the University of Uppsala, dealing with the development of be and have as auxiliaries with the perfect tense of intransitive verbs in the second half of the 17th century.
		List of Banished Words - Annual list published by Lake Superior State University of words that should be banished from the English language for misuse, overuse, and just general uselessness.
		Allows list to be sorted by the least to most, most to least or alphabetically.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Germanic/English (763 words)

	Digg - The Ultimate List of Eponyms aka Brands that OWN the Market
		Digg - The Ultimate List of Eponyms aka Brands that OWN the Market
		The Ultimate List of Eponyms aka Brands that OWN the Market
		There are so many products where the name of it is what the market calls it.
	digg.com /business_finance/The_Ultimate_List_of_Eponyms_aka_Brands_that_OWN_the_Market (208 words)

	The Ultimate List of Eponyms aka Brands that OWN the Market - Noah Kagan’s Okdork.com
		i saw that list but it is not complete.
		Gotta disagree here guys, having your brand name becoming a household name, like the many we’ve listed so far… can’t always be a good thing.
		noah kagan wrote The Ultimate List of Eponyms aka Brands that OWN the Market on August 16th, 2006 and there are 42 comments.
	okdork.com /2006/08/16/the-ultimate-list-of-brands-that-own-the-market (1694 words)

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