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Describing medical eponyms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Susanne Mühlhaus
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Abstract

A rare glimpse into a problem in the world of medical lexicography, focusing on the eponyms diverticulum of Kommerell and Gerbode defect

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 48 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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