Current use of medical eponyms – a need for global uniformity in scientific publications

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although eponyms are widely used in medicine, they arbitrarily alternate between the possessive and nonpossessive forms. As very little is known regarding extent and distribution of this variation, the present study was planned to as...

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Main Authors: Arora Nalini, Barik Sukumar, Jana Narayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/18