eponyms in English
noun
1
a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
The eponyms are the French Marquis de Sade and the Austrian Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
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1. There are several anatomical eponyms attributed to Antoine Ferrein, including: "Ferrein's canal": (rivus lacrimalis); A space between the eyelids when closed and the eyeball through which tears flow to the lacrimal punctum.