List of human anatomical parts named after people

This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people. These are often called eponyms.

Alphabetical list
For clarity, entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L.

A

 * Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
 * Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical figure
 * Adonis's belt, Apollo's belt – Adonis, Apollo, Greek mythological characters
 * Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Benjamin Alcock (1801–1859?), Irish anatomist
 * Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist
 * Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach

B

 * Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist
 * Balbiani bodies – Édouard-Gérard Balbiani
 * Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
 * Batson's plexus – Oscar Vivian Batson (1894–1979), American anatomist
 * Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist
 * Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian anatomist
 * Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin (1712–1781), French anatomist
 * Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (1834–1894), Ukrainian histologist
 * Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), Austrian surgeon
 * Bowman's capsule and Bowman's layer – Sir William Bowman (1816–1892), English surgeon-anatomist
 * Broca's area – Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon-anatomist
 * Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), German neurologist
 * Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), Swiss anatomist
 * Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck (1807–1877), American surgeon

C

 * Cajal cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist
 * Cajal–Retzius cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), Swedish histologist
 * Calyx of Held – Hans Held (1866–1942), German Anatomist
 * Calot's triangle – Jean-François Calot (1861–1944), French surgeon
 * Fascia of Camper - Petrus Camper (1722-1789), Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist
 * Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac (1804–1879), French physician
 * Clara cell – Max Clara (1899–1966), German anatomist (renamed to Club cell after Max Clara's Nazi activities were discovered)
 * Cloquet's canal – Jules Cloquet (1790–1883), French Anatomist
 * Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Irish surgeon
 * Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon
 * Inguinal ligament of Cooper or Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
 * Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
 * Organ of Corti – Alfonso Corti (1822–1876), Italian microanatomist
 * Cowper's glands – William Cowper (1666–1709), English surgeon-anatomist
 * Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist
 * Canals of Lambert - described by Lambert in 1955

D

 * Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British Naturalist
 * Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (1808–1872), French surgeon
 * Descemet's membrane – Jean Descemet (1732–1810), French physician
 * Space of Disse – Joseph Disse (1852–1912), German histologist
 * Dorello's canal – Primo Dorello (1872–1963), Italian Anatomist.
 * Pouch of Douglas, Douglas' line – James Douglas (1675–1742), Scottish anatomist

E

 * Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner (1842–1925), German histologist
 * Edinger–Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918), German neuroanatomist, and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), German neurologist
 * Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500 / 1514 / 1520–1574), Italian anatomist

F

 * Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562), Italian anatomist

G

 * Gallaudet's fascia – Bern Budd Gallaudet (1860–1934), American anatomist
 * Gartner's duct – Hermann Treschow Gartner (1785–1827), Danish surgeon-anatomist
 * Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy (1797–1856), French physician
 * Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota (1867–1939), Romanian urology surgeon-anatomist
 * Giacomini vein – Carlo Giacomini (1840–1898) Italian anatomist
 * Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson (1599?–1677), English anatomist
 * Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian pathologist
 * Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf (1641–1673), Dutch anatomist
 * Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957), German-American gynecologist
 * Great vein of Galen and the other veins of Galen – Galen (129 AD – 200 / 216 AD), an ancient Greek physician

H

 * Hartmann's pouch – Henri Hubert Vadim Hartmann (1860–1952), German Surgeon
 * Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist
 * Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician
 * Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), German surgeon-anatomist
 * Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle (1809–1885), German pathologist
 * Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), German physiologist
 * Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866–1948), Austrian physician
 * Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring (1872–1967), English physiologist
 * Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist
 * Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759–1816), German surgeon-anatomist
 * Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore (1613–1685), English surgeon-anatomist
 * Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr. (1863–1934), Swiss cardiologist
 * Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers) – John Houston (1802–1845), Irish anatomist
 * Houston's valves – John Houston (1802-1845), Irish anatomist
 * Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier (1804–1878), French surgeon-gynecologist
 * Hurthle cell – Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German histologist

I

 * Iris (anatomy) – Iris, Greek mythological character

K

 * Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring (1638–1693), Dutch anatomist
 * Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan (1896–1981), Irish-American pathologist
 * Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839-1902), German otolaryngologist
 * Koch's triangle – German pathologist  Walter Koch
 * Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
 * Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
 * Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer

L

 * Langer's lines – Karl Langer
 * Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
 * Langhans giant cell – Theodor Langhans
 * Lauth's canal – Thomas Lauth
 * Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
 * Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
 * Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
 * Lister's tubercle – Joseph Lister
 * Little's plexus
 * Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
 * Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
 * Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
 * Lovibond's angle
 * Lund's node
 * Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka

M

 * Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
 * Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
 * McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
 * Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi, the name given to both renal corpuscle and splenic lymphoid nodules
 * Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
 * Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
 * Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
 * Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
 * Meyer's loop
 * Moll's gland – Jacob Anton Moll
 * Space of Möll –
 * Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro
 * Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
 * Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
 * Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
 * Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller

N

 * Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl

O

 * Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi

P

 * Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
 * Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
 * Papez circuit – James Papez
 * Artery of Percheron – Gerard Percheron
 * Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
 * Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
 * Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
 * Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
 * Purkinje fibres – Jan E. Purkinje
 * Pimenta's Point

R

 * Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
 * Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
 * Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
 * Remak's ganglia –  Robert Remak
 * Island of Reil –  Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813)
 * Renshaw cells – Birdsey Renshaw (1908–1948)
 * Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
 * Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
 * Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
 * Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
 * Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
 * Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini

S

 * Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
 * Fascia of Scarpa – Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832), Italian professor and anatomist
 * Canal of Schlemm – Friedrich Schlemm
 * Schwann Cell – Theodor Schwann
 * Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
 * Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
 * Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
 * Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
 * Spiegelian fascia, Spiegelian line, Spiegelian lobe – Adriaan van den Spiegel
 * Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
 * Stilling's canal
 * Struthers' ligament – Sir John Struthers
 * Sylvian aqueduct – Franciscus Sylvius

T

 * Thebesian foramina – Adam Christian Thebesius
 * Thebesian valve – Adam Christian Thebesius
 * Thebesian vein – Adam Christian Thebesius
 * White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
 * Torcular herophili – Herophilus
 * Traube's space – Ludwig Traube-
 * Ligament, veil or bloodless fold of Treves -- Sir Frederick Treves
 * Ligament of Treitz – Václav Treitz

V

 * Sinus of Valsalva – Antonio Maria Valsalva
 * Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
 * Limbus of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
 * Valve of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
 * Vieussens valve of the Coronary Sinus – Raymond Vieussens
 * Virchow–Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
 * Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow

W

 * Waldeyer's tonsillar ring – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), German anatomist
 * Weibel–Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel (1929–2019), Swiss biologist, and George Emil Palade (1912–2008), Romanian-American cell biologist
 * Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), Dutch anatomist
 * Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
 * Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton (1614–1673), English physician and anatomist
 * Circle of Willis – arterial circle in base of brain – Dr. Thomas Willis (1621–1675), English physician
 * Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow (1669–1760), Danish-born French anatomist
 * Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung (1589–1643), German anatomist
 * Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist
 * Wormian bones – Ole Worm (1588–1654), Danish scientist

Z

 * Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759), German anatomist and botanist
 * Organ of Zuckerkandl – Emil Zuckerkandl (1849–1910), Hungarian anatomist