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Example sentences for: eponyms

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But rather than pursue that obscure tack any further (place names such as Washington are surely both proper nouns and eponyms), let us see if the proper categories of words really end there as grammar books tend to suggest.
But what are we to do about eponyms?
The Annals of Internal Medicine , organ of the American College of Physicians, abandoned the possessive form totally in 1988, protesting that eponyms are inappropriate when a directly descriptive synonym is available.
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.
Which leads to the use of medical eponyms, proper names, usually of persons or places, to designate diseases; their signs and symptoms, alone or in combination; reflexes, and a host of other medical phenomena.