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Many experts, however, prefer to categorize these as common nouns or adjectives, labelling them eponyms --words derived from names.
For these reasons, most grammarians would simply classify these verbs as eponyms.
The difference between it and "Heimlich" or "sandwich," to take two more common eponyms, is that there are many, many other terms for oral sex, but none for the Heimlich maneuver or a sandwich.
For some eponymous terms, the eponymy is obvious, or famous: Caesarean section ; graham cracker ; Molotov cocktail ; boycott ; leotard ; Luddite ; silhouette ; volt . Many more eponyms, though familiar, are not so obviously eponymous.
Safire's syndrome would have been of little concern in the 18th century, before eponyms became fashionable, and, according to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, before the adjective possessive would modify case.