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He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of nephrology, with his name immortalized in the eponym Bright's disease.
The word 'hippo', 'mall' in the Bamana language, is an eponym for the country itself.
It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an eponym for a heterogeneous group of immune-mediated peripheral neuropathies.
Leprosy was given the eponym Hansen's disease after Gerhard Henrick Armauer Hansen.
Little before Phan Rang I stopped in Thap Cham to visit Po Klong Garai Towers, Chams southernmost towers of the eponym empire.
They would have integrated Malayan Union at the time of the independence of the eponym peninsula.
Although benign congenital hypotonia subsequently came to be known by the eponym of Walton's hypotonia, Walton was not the first to describe this entity.
On road NH65 in Beng Mealea I walked into the upsetting ruins of the eponym temple which was used as set in a movie by JJ Annaud, Two Brothers.
In 1933, ten years before the eponym fonder deceased, the first home appliances production was launched with the Bosch refrigerators.
The old eponym city is worth a visit to admire Sino-Portuguese architecture of its prestigious past.
April 15th marks the 260th anniversary of the publication of the great dictionary written by Samuel Johnson, the eponym of this column.
It is not necessary to repeat the preceding commentaries on eponym, fabricant, emblem, etc. unless one wants to add something new.
Work on and with the eponym of our foundation are also among the central tasks of the Academy.
He is the eponym for the English verb and common noun boycott.
In precise, traditional usage, an eponym is someone who gives a name to something else, and eponymous describes the giver of the name, not the receiver.
For evidence, consider the column's eponym.
Scoop: presented during the 2010 SIHH, the Master Compressor Navy Seals is the latest model resulting from the partnership between Jaeger-LeCoutre and the eponym American elite unity.
Since 1990, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has been active in keeping with its eponym, Rosa Luxemburg and represents the main current of democratic socialism with a deliberate international focus.
On the way we stopped in Grotto cut in the multicoloured sandstone where we saw fauna of the eponym river, it was a peaceful place where tree rustle and bird song were favourable with meditation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Xanthus, however, puts Torrhebus in the place of Tyrsenus, and makes him the eponym of a district in Lydia.
As for this eponym thing, why Saint Augustine called attention to it fifteen hundred years ago.
And in this respect Herakles was the eponym and patron of an order which existed throughout Doric Hellas.
Sardanapalus, the eponym of Oriental luxury, furnishes a good subject for this style of composition.
The case is different with Herakles, the patron, eponym, and ancestor of Dorian Hellas.
This, however, as we learn from the eponym Canon, was not all.
As much is suggested by the following entry in an eponym list.
The eponym in Siegfried was Hugo Mallet, one of the most ringingly sustained performances I have ever heard, but woodenly conductor-fixated onstage.
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