About this app
Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's 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/). ## Features • 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 ## 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 you're currently visiting. This means you can either learn eponyms from a given category, only the ones that you've starred or simply all of them. ## Students Look out for the free student version of Eponyms: it's identical to to this version but free for educational purposes!
Latest release
What’s New
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. • Now in shiny 64-bit and able to accommodate all device screen sizes • Added a handful of eponyms
Audience growth
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- First observed Aug 13, 2026 · 2:35 AM $1.99