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Selected definitions from Dorland's Medical Dictionary illustrate some of the shifts:
Dorland also listed 488 signs, again mostly eponymous, of different diseases, thirty-three in thyrotoxicosis.
Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.
By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.
The 1988 quotation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III) returned Dorland's Medical Dictionary to the 20th century: DSM-III is the standard psychiatric manual defining mental disorders.