List of human anatomical parts named after people

This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

Alphabetical list

For clarity, entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L.

A

• Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
• Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
• Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Benjamin Alcock (1801–1859?), Irish anatomist
• Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist

B

• Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist
• Balbiani bodies – Édouard-Gérard Balbiani
• Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
• Batson's plexus – Oscar Vivian Batson (1894–1979), American anatomist
• Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist
• Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian anatomist
• Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin (1712–1781), French anatomist
• Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (1834–1894), Ukrainian histologist
• Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), Austrian surgeon
• Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman (1816–1892), English surgeon-anatomist
• Broca's area – Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon-anatomist
• Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), German neurologist
• Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), Swiss anatomist
• Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck (1807–1877), American surgeon

C

• Cajal cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist
• Cajal–Retzius cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), Swiss histologist
• Calot's triangle – Jean-François Calot (1861–1944), French surgeon
• Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac (1804–1879), French physician
• Circle of Willis – arterial circle in base of brain – Dr. Thomas Willis (1621–1675), English physician
• Clara cell – Max Clara (1899–1966), German anatomist
• Cloquet's canal
• Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Irish surgeon
• Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon
• Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
• Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
• Organ of Corti – Alfonso Corti (1822–1876), Italian microanatomist
• Cowper's glands – William Cowper (1666–1709), English surgeon-anatomist
• Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist

D

• Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British Naturalist
• Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (1808–1872), French surgeon
• Descemet's membrane  – Jean Descemet (1732–1810), French physician
• Space of Disse – Joseph Disse (1852–1912), German histologist
• Dorello's canal – Primo Dorello

• Pouch of Douglas – James Douglas (1675–1742), Scottish anatomist
• Dua's layer – Harminder Dua (1967 – ) British-Indian ophthalmologist

E

• Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner (1842–1925), German histologist
• Edinger–Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918), German neuroanatomist, and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), German neurologist
• Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500 / 1514 / 1520–1574), Italian anatomist

F

• Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562), Italian anatomist

G

• Gallaudet's fascia – Bryan Baron Gallaudet (1853–1942), American anatomist
• Gartner's duct – Hermann Treschow Gartner (1785–1827), Danish surgeon-anatomist
• Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy (1797–1856), French physician
• Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota (1867–1939), Romanian urology surgeon-anatomist
• Giacomini vein – Carlo Giacomini (1840-1898) Italian anatomist
• Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson (1599?–1677), English anatomist
• Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian pathologist
• Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf (1641–1673), Dutch anatomist
• Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957), German-American gynecologist
• Great vein of Galen and the other veins of Galen – Galen (129 AD – 200 / 216 AD), an ancient Greek physician

H

• Hartmann's pouch – Henri Hubert Vadim Hartmann
• Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist
• Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician
• Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), German surgeon-anatomist
• Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle (1809–1885), German pathologist
• Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), German physiologist
• Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866–1948), Austrian physician
• Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring (1872–1967), English physiologist
• Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist
• Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759–1816), German surgeon-anatomist
• Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore (1613–1685), English surgeon-anatomist
• Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr. (1863–1934), Swiss cardiologist
• Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers) – John Houston (1802–1845), Irish anatomist
• Houston's valves – John Houston, Irish anatomist
• Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier (1804–1878), French surgeon-gynecologist
• Hurthle cell – Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German histologist

K

• Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring (1638–1693), Dutch anatomist
• Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan (1896–1981), Irish-American pathologist
• Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach
• Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
• Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
• Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer

L

• Langer's lines – Karl Langer
• Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
• Langhans giant cell – Theodor Langhans
• Lauth's canal – Thomas Lauth
• Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
• Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
• Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
• Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
• Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
• Lovibond's angle
• Lund's node
• Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

• Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
• Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
• McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
• Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi, the name given to both renal corpuscle and splenic lymphoid nodules
• Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
• Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
• Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
• Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
• Meyer's loop
• Möll's gland and Space of Möll – Jacob A. Möll
• Foramina of Monro

 – Alexander Monro

• Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
• Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
• Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
• Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller

N

• Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl

O

• Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi

P

• Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
• Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
• Papez circuit – James Papez
• Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
• Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
• Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
• Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
• Pimenta's Point

R

• Island of Reil  – Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813)
• Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
• Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
• Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
• Renshaw cells – Birdsey Renshaw (1908–1948)
• Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
• Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
• Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
• Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
• Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
• Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini

S

• Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
• Canal of Schlemm – Friedrich Schlemm
• Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
• Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
• Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
• Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
• Spigelian fascia – Adriaan van den Spiegel
• Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
• Stilling's canal
• Struthers' ligament – Sir John Struthers
• Sylvian aqueduct – Franciscus Sylvius

T

• Thebesian foramina – Adam Christian Thebesius
• Thebesian valve – Adam Christian Thebesius
• Thebesian vein – Adam Christian Thebesius
• Thorel's pathway – Carl Thorel (1859–1938)
• White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
• Torcular herophili – Herophilus
• Traube's space – Ludwig Traube
• Ligament of Treitz – Václav Treitz

V

• Sinus of Valsalva – Antonio Maria Valsalva
• Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
• Limbus of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
• Valve of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
• Vieussens valve of the Coronary Sinus – Raymond Vieussens
• Virchow–Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
• Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

• Waldeyer's tonsillar ring – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
• Weibel–Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel and George Emil Palade
• Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach
• Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
• Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton
• Circle of Willis – Thomas Willis
• Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow
• Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung
• Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
• Wormian bones – Ole Worm

Z

• Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn

See also

• List of eponymous diseases
• List of eponymous medical signs
• List of eponymous medical treatments
• Lists of etymologies
• Human anatomy
• List of anatomical topics