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Medicine, 20.09.2020 08:01 jstadler06

An eponym is a word that is named after a person or place associated with it. Some healthcare terms, such as the names for some diseases, are eponyms. Select three medical eponyms from the list below. Write one to two sentences describing each disease and how its name was derived. ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)

Down syndrome

Legionnaires' disease

Lyme disease

Woody Guthrie's disease

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