Eponyms in patients’ medical case reports

This article is devoted to the study of eponyms in modern medical documentation. Records in patients’ medical case reports take a special place in the structure of medical writing, being a highly effective means of transferring scientific knowledge all over the world. The aim of the work is to study the prevalence of the use of eponymic terms in patients’ medical case reports, their structural and etymological analysis. The material of the study was extracts from patients’ case reports in the period from 2014 to 2024, which are in the public domain. The documents under study were reviewed using quantitative research methods, structural, etymological analysis. The study of patients’ medical case reports allowed us to identify nine semantic groups of eponyms and determine that the largest number of eponymic terms is represented in such sections of medicine as therapy, neurology, traumatology, orthopaedics and surgery, as they reflect a large number of diseases and their symptoms. This study demonstrated the significant word-forming potential of Greek in the formation of eponyms and identified the need for a mastery of Greek-Latin terminology which will enhance understanding and make professional communication in the medical field more effective