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    NOMENs Land: The Place of Eponyms in the Anatomy Classroom
    (Wiley, 2021-11) McNulty, Margaret A.; Wisner, Rebecca L.; Meyer, Amanda J.; Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine
    The law of Non-Original Malappropriate Eponymous Nomenclature (NOMEN) states that no phenomenon is named after its discoverer (Stigler, 1980; Aresti and Ramachandran, 2012; Aronson, 2014). However, eponymous terms are rife in the anatomical and medical literature. Here the authors support the argument that eponymous terms do not have a firm place and should not be used in anatomy education.