- A dictionary of medical eponyms

Eponyms beginning with Y

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Yentl's syndrome
Yeo's treatment
Yergason's test
Yergason’s sign
Yergason’s symptom
Yersin's serum
Yersinia
Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Yersinia-arthritis
Yersinosis
Yersin’s bacillus
Young's modulus
Young's rule
Young's temperament (Thomas Young)
Young-von Helmholtz three colour theory
Yugé’s syndrome
Yugoslavian chronic, endemic nephropathy

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