EponymsVersion: 1.1
Developer: Pascal Pfiffner
Age rating: 4+
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Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later
Filed Under: Medical
Eponyms brings a short description of more than 1'700 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) to your iPhone 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/) who still maintains the database, updates can be installed right from within Eponyms.
*** Features:
• More than 1'700 eponyms, updates can be downloaded right from within the App
• Full text search
• 28 categories as well as the full list
• Customizable "starred" list to keep track of the eponyms you tend to forget or with which you want to test your students in the next exam ;)
• List of recently accessed eponyms
• Learn mode
*** Learn Mode:
After enabling learn mode in the preferences (accessible from the category overview screen by tapping the (i) button):
• Shake your device sideways in order to display only the name of a random eponym
• Shake it up and down to only display the description of an eponym
In both cases, a "Solve" button appears which displays the missing information. Learn mode randomly displays eponyms from the category you're currently visiting (or you've last visited). So you can either learn eponyms from a given category, only the ones that you've starred or just 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.
Eponyms Review
App takes the mystery out of medical jargon
by Franklin N. Tessler, MD, Macworld.com
A longstanding tradition in medicine rewards people by naming diseases, procedures, and other noteworthy discoveries after them. Alas, remembering them all is a huge headache for anyone who’s studying medicine or any related field. Pascal Pfiffner’s Eponyms for the iPhone and iPod touch makes the job easier by providing a searchable catalog of more than 1,600 medical eponyms.
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