william r. kennedy kennedy's syndrome – robert foster kennedy kenny-caffey syndrome – frederic marshal kenny, john patrick caffey kienbock's disease – robert kienböck kikuchi's disease – masahiro kikuchi, y.fujimoto kimmelstiel–wilson disease – paul kimmelstiel, clifford wilson kimura's disease – t. kimura king–kopetzky syndrome – p. f. king, samuel j. kopetzky kinsbourne syndrome – marcel kinsbourne kjer's optic neuropathy – poul kjer klatskin's tumor – gerald klatskin klinefelter syndrome – harry klinefelter klüver–bucy syndrome – heinrich klüver, paul bucy köhler disease – alban köhler korsakoff syndrome – sergei korsakoff kounis syndrome – nicholas kounis krabbe's disease – knud haraldsen krabbe krukenberg tumor – friedrich ernst krukenberg kugelberg–welander disease – erik klas henrik kugelberg, lisa welander kuttner's tumor – hermann küttner l lafora's disease – gonzalo rodriguez lafora laron syndrome – zvi laron laurence–moon syndrome – john zachariah laurence, robert charles moon laurence–moon–bardet–biedl syndrome (a.k.a. laurence–moon–biedl–bardet syndrome, a.k.a. laurence–moon–biedl syndrome - both now deemed invalid constructs, see instead bardet–biedl syndrome) – john zachariah laurence, robert charles moon, georges bardet, arthur biedl legg–calvé–perthes syndrome – arthur legg, jacques calvé, georg perthes leigh's disease – denis archibald leigh leiner syndrome – karl leiner, andré moussous leishmaniasis – sir william boog leishman lejeune's syndrome – jérôme lejeune lemierre's syndrome – andré lemierre lenègre's disease – jean lenègre lennox–gastaut syndrome (a.k.a. lennox syndrome) – william gordon lennox, henri jean pascal gastaut lesch–nyhan syndrome – michael lesch, william leo nyhan letterer–siwe disease – erich letterer, sture siwe lev disease – maurice lev lewandowsky–lutz dysplasia – felix lewandowsky, wilhelm lutz li–fraumeni syndrome – frederick pei li, joseph f. fraumeni, jr. libman–sacks disease – emanuel libman, benjamin sacks liddle's syndrome – grant liddle lisfranc injury (a.k.a. lisfranc dislocation, a.k.a. lisfranc fracture) – jacques lisfranc de st. martin listeriosis – joseph lister lobomycosis – jorge lobo loeys-dietz syndrome - bart loeys, hal dietz löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis – wilhelm löffler löfgren syndrome – sven halvar löfgren lou gehrig's disease – lou gehrig lowe syndrome – charles upton lowe ludwig's angina – wilhelm friedrich von ludwig lujan-fryns syndrome - j. enrique lujan, jean-pierre fryns lynch syndrome – henry t. lynch m machado–joseph azorean disease (a.k.a. machado–joseph disease, machado disease, joseph disease) – named for william machado and antone joseph, patriarchs of families in which it was first identified marie–foix–alajouanine syndrome – pierre marie, charles foix, théophile alajouanine maladie de charcot – jean-martin charcot mallory–weiss syndrome – g. kenneth mallory, soma weiss mansonelliasis – sir patrick manson marburg multiple sclerosis – otto marburg marfan syndrome – antoine marfan marshall syndrome – richard e. marshall marshall–smith–weaver syndrome (a.k.a. marshall–smith syndrome, greig syndrome) – richard e. marshall, david weyhe smith martin–albright syndrome (a.k.a. albright iv syndrome) – august e. martin, fuller albright may–hegglin anomaly – richard may, robert hegglin maydl's hernia—karel maydl mayer–rokitansky–küster–hauser syndrome (mrkh) - august franz josef karl mayer, carl von rokitansky, hermann küster, georges andre hauser mazzotti reaction – luigi mazzotti mcardle's disease – brian mcardle mccune–albright syndrome – (a.k.a. albright disease, albright hereditary osteodystrophy, albright syndrome) – donovan james mccune, fuller albright meckel–gruber syndrome (a.k.a. meckel syndrome) – johann meckel, georg gruber meigs' syndrome – joe vincent meigs ménétrier's disease – pierre eugène ménétrier ménière’s disease – prosper ménière menkes disease – john hans menkes middleton syndrome – stephen john middleton mirizzi syndrome mikulicz's disease – jan mikulicz-radecki miss havisham syndrome (a.k.a. diogenes syndrome, havisham syndrome, and plyushkin syndrome) – miss havisham, a fictional character in charles dickens' great expectations mondor's disease – henri mondor monge's disease – carlos monge mortimer's disease – first documented by jonathan hutchinson, named for his patient mrs. mortimer morton's neuroma moschcowitz syndrome – eli moschcowitz mowat–wilson syndrome – david mowat, meredith wilson mucha–habermann disease – viktor mucha, rudolf habermann mulvihill–smith syndrome – john j. mulvihill, david weyhe smith munchausen syndrome – baron munchausen munchausen syndrome by proxy – baron munchausen myhre–riley–smith syndrome – s. myhre, harris d. riley jr. n nasu–hakola disease – t. nasu, p. hakola non-hodgkin lymphoma – thomas hodgkin noonan syndrome – jacqueline noonan o opitz-kaveggia syndrome – john m. opitz, elisabeth g. kaveggia ormond's disease – john kelso ormond osgood–schlatter disease – robert bayley osgood, carl b. schlatter osler–weber–rendu syndrome – william osler, frederick parkes weber, henri jules louis marie rendu othello syndrome – delusional or pathological jealousy p paget's disease of bone (a.k.a. paget's disease) – james paget paget's disease of the breast (a.k.a. paget's disease of the nipple) – james paget paget's disease of the penis – james paget paget's disease of the vulva – james paget paget–schroetter disease (a.k.a. paget–schroetter syndrome and paget–von schrötter disease) – james paget, leopold von schrötter parkinson's disease – james parkinson patau syndrome – klaus patau pearson syndrome – howard pearson pelizaeus–merzbacher disease – friedrich christoph pelizaeus, ludwig merzbacher pendred syndrome - vaughan pendred - a british doctor (1869–1946) perthes syndrome – arthur legg, jacques calvé, georg perthes peutz–jeghers syndrome – jan peutz, harold jeghers peyronie's disease – françois gigot de la peyronie pfaundler–hurler syndrome – meinhard von pfaundler, gertrud hurler pick's disease – arnold pick pickardt syndrome – renate pickardt plummer's disease – henry stanley plummer plummer–vinson syndrome (a.k.a. kelly–patterson syndrome, paterson–brown–kelly syndrome, and waldenstrom–kjellberg syndrome) – henry stanley plummer and porter paisley vinson plyushkin syndrome (a.k.a. diogenes syndrome, havisham syndrome, and miss havisham syndrome)– stepan plyushkin, a fictional character in nikolai gogol's dead souls poland's syndrome – alfred poland pompe's disease – johann cassianius pompe pott's disease – percivall pott pott's puffy tumor – percivall pott potocki–lupski syndrome – lorraine potocki, james r. lupski potocki–shaffer syndrome – lorraine potocki, lisa g. shaffer potter sequence – edith potter prader–willi syndrome – andrea prader, heinrich willi prasad's syndrome – ashok prasad primrose syndrome – d. a. primrose prinzmetal angina – myron prinzmetal purtilo syndrome (a.k.a. duncan disease and duncan syndrome) – q quarelli syndrome – g.quarelli quervain syndrome r ramsay hunt syndromes – james ramsay hunt ranke complex – karl ernst ranke raymond céstan syndrome – étienne jacques marie raymond céstan raynaud disease – maurice raynaud refsum disease – sigvald bernhard refsum reiter syndrome – hans conrad julius reiter (this is now a strongly discouraged eponym due to dr. reiter's nazi party ties. the disease is now known as reactive arthritis.) rett syndrome – andreas rett reye syndrome – douglas reye rickettsiosis – howard taylor ricketts riddoch syndrome – george riddoch riedel thyroiditis – bernhard riedel riggs disease – john m. riggs (dentist) riley–day syndrome – conrad milton riley, richard lawrence day riley–smith syndrome – harris d. riley jr., william r. smith ritter disease – baron gottfried ritter von rittershain robles disease – rodolfo robles roger disease – henri louis roger rolandic epilepsy – luigi rolando rotor syndrome – arturo belleza rotor rubinstein–taybi syndrome – jack herbert rubinstein, hooshang taybi russell–silver syndrome – alexander russell, henry silver ruvalcaba–myhre syndrome – rogelio h. a. ruvalcaba, s. myhre ruvalcaba–myhre–smith syndrome – rogelio h. a. ruvalcaba, s. myhre, david weyhe smith ruzicka–goerz–anton syndrome – t. ruzicka, g. goerz, i. anton-lamprecht s saint's triad – c. f. m. saint sandhoff disease – konrad sandhoff sandifer syndrome – paul sandifer sanjad-sakati syndrome (a.k.a sanjad-sakati-richardson-kirk syndrome, hypoparathyroidism-retardation-dysmophic (hrd)) - sami a. sanjad,nadia awni sakati, ricky j richardson, jeremy mw kirk schamberg disease – jay frank schamberg scheie syndrome – harold glendon scheie scheuermann's disease – holger scheuermann schilder's disease – paul ferdinand schilder schinzel–giedion syndrome – albert schinzel, andreas giedion schnitzler syndrome – liliane schnitzler seaver cassidy syndrome – laurie seaver, suzanne cassidy seligmann's disease – maxime seligmann sever's disease – j. w. sever shabbir syndrome – g. shabbir sheehan's syndrome – harold leeming sheehan shprintzen's syndrome – robert shprintzen shwachman–bodian–diamond syndrome – harry shwachman, martin bodian, louis klein diamond silver–russell syndrome (a.k.a. silver–russell dwarfism) – henry silver, alexander russell simmonds' syndrome – moritz simmonds sipple's syndrome – john h. sipple sjögren syndrome – henrik sjögren sjögren–larsson syndrome – torsten sjögren, tage konrad leopold larsson skumin syndrome - victor skumin smith–lemli–opitz syndrome – david weyhe smith stargardt disease – karl stargardt steele–richardson–olszewski syndrome – stevens–johnson syndrome – albert mason stevens, frank chambliss johnson sturge–weber syndrome – william allen sturge, frederick parkes weber still's disease – sir george frederic still susac's syndrome – john susac sutton's disease – richard lightburn sutton t tan syndrome – tan aik kah takayasu's arteritis – mikito takayasu tatton-brown-rahman syndrome - kate tatton brown, nazneen rahman tay–sachs disease – warren tay, bernard sachs theileriosis – sir arnold theiler thomsen's disease – julius thomsen tietz syndrome – walter tietz tietze syndrome – alexander tietze temple–baraitser syndrome - karin temple and michael baraitser todd syndrome (a.k.a. alice in wonderland syndrome) - john todd tourette syndrome – georges albert édouard brutus gilles de la tourette treacher collins syndrome – edward treacher collins turcot syndrome – jacques turcot turner syndrome – henry turner u unverricht–lundborg disease – heinrich unverricht, herman bernhard lundborg usher syndrome – charles usher v valentino syndrome – rudolph valentino verner morrison syndrome – j. v. verner, a. b. morrison vincent's angina – henri vincent virchow's syndrome – rudolf virchow vogt–koyanagi–harada disease - alfred vogt, yoshizo koyanagi, einosuke harada von gierke's disease – edgar von gierke von hippel–lindau disease – eugen von hippel, arvid vilhelm lindau von recklinghausen's disease – friedrich daniel von recklinghausen von willebrand's disease – erik adolf von willebrand von zumbusch (acute) generalized pustular psoriasis) – (a.k.a. zumbusch psoriasis) leo ritter von zumbusch von zumbusch syndrome (a.k.a. csillag disease, hallopeau disease, zumbusch syndrome) – leo ritter von zumbusch w waardenburg syndrome – petrus johannes waardenburg waldenstrom–kjellberg syndrome – jan g. waldenström, s. r. kjellberg waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia – jan g. waldenström warkany syndrome 1 – joseph warkany warkany syndrome 2 – joseph warkany warthin's tumor – aldred scott warthin waterhouse–friderichsen syndrome – rupert waterhouse, carl friderichsen watson syndrome – g.h.watson weber–christian disease – frederick parkes weber, henry asbury christian wegener's granulomatosis – friedrich wegener (this usage is now formally discouraged by professional medical societies due to the nazi associations of the eponymous physician. the disease is now known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis.) weil's disease – adolf weil welander distal myopathy – lisa welander wells syndrome – george crichton wells werdnig–hoffmann disease – guido werdnig, johann hoffmann wermer's syndrome – paul wermer werner's syndrome – otto werner wernicke's encephalopathy – karl wernicke westerhof syndrome – wiete westerhof westerhof–beemer–cormane syndrome – wiete westerhof, frederikus antonius beemer, r. h.cormane whipple's disease – george hoyt whipple williams syndrome – j. c. p. williams wilms tumor – max wilms wilson's disease – samuel alexander kinnier wilson willis–ekbom syndrome – thomas willis, karl-axel ekbom wiskott–aldrich syndrome – alfred wiskott, robert aldrich wittmaack–ekbom syndrome – theodur wittmaack, karl-axel ekbom wohlfart–kugelberg–welander disease – karl gunnar vilhelm wohlfart, erik klas henrik kugelberg, lisa welander wolff–parkinson–white syndrome – louis wolff, john parkinson, paul dudley white wolman disease – moshe wolman wernicke encephalopathy - carl wernicke wernicke–korsakoff syndrome - (named for the combination of wernicke encephalopathy and korsakoff syndrome which were discovered separately, unlike usual naming this disease was not discovered by carl wernicke and sergei korsakoff) y yesudian syndrome – paul yesudian z zahorsky syndrome i – john zahorsky zahorsky syndrome ii (a.k.a. mikulicz' aphthae, mikulicz' disease, sutton disease 2, mikulicz' aphthae, zahorsky disease) – john zahorsky zellweger syndrome – hans ulrich zellweger zenker diverticulum – friedrich albert von zenker zenker paralysis – friedrich albert von zenker zieve syndrome – leslie zieve zimmermann–laband syndrome (a.k.a. laband syndrome, laband–zimmermann syndrome) – karl wilhelm zimmermann zollinger–ellison syndrome – robert zollinger, edwin ellison zondek–bromberg–rozin syndrome (a.k.a. zondek syndrome) – bernhard zondek, yehuda m. bromberg, r.rozin zuelzer syndrome – wolf william zuelzer zuelzer–kaplan syndrome ii (a.k.a. crosby syndrome) – wolf william zuelzer, e. kaplan zuelzer–ogden syndrome – wolf william zuelzer, frank nevin ogden zumbusch psoriasis (a.k.a. von zumbusch (acute) generalized pustular psoriasis) – leo ritter von zumbusch zumbusch syndrome (a.k.a. csillag disease, hallopeau disease, von zumbusch syndrome) – leo ritter von zumbusch