Eponyms app for iPhone and iPad

Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsings sign, Virchows node) to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.

It uses the beautiful eponym database from Andrew J. Yee (http://www.eponyms.net/).


• About 1800 eponyms
• Full text search
• Browse by any of the 26 categories
• Star eponyms to keep track of the eponyms you tend to forget or with which you want to test your students on
• List of recently accessed eponyms
• Quick and easy learn mode


The learn mode allows you to:

• swipe to the left to show a random eponym but not its title
• swipe to the right to show a random eponym title but not its text
• pull down to reveal the hidden info

Learn mode displays eponyms from the category youre currently visiting. This means you can either learn eponyms from a given category, only the ones that youve starred or simply all of them.


Look out for the free student version of Eponyms: its identical to to this version but free for educational purposes!

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