Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0024 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Convention: Non-Possessive Eponyms
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The idea
This course writes eponyms without the possessive: Parkinson disease, Down syndrome, Crohn disease.
In practice
Alzheimer disease appears in this course; Alzheimer's disease does not.
Where people slip
Both forms are in current use and charts will show either. This is a declared convention, not a correction.
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