Features & Capabilities

Believe it or not – updated after all these years to work with iOS 11!

Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.

It uses the beautiful eponym database from Andrew J. Yee (http://www.eponyms.net/).

Features

• About 1800 eponyms • Full text search • Browse by any of the 26 categories • Star eponyms to keep track of the eponyms you tend to forget or which you know are favorites of your professor • List of recently accessed eponyms • Quick and easy learn mode

Learn Mode

The learn mode allows you to:

• swipe to the left to show a random eponym but not its title • swipe to the right to show a random eponym title but not its text • pull down to reveal the hidden info

Learn mode displays eponyms from the category you're currently visiting. This means you can either learn eponyms from a given category, only the ones that you've starred or simply all of them.

Non-students:

This is the free student version. Please only download the free version while you (still) are a student. Look for the regular version if you're a professional now.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Ossus GmbH
Rating:
4.50
(8)
Version:
2.0 Last updated: 2019-02-12
Version code:
841382772
Creation date:
2019-02-12
Compatible devices:
Size:
17.99MB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-19
Compare stats and ranking:

Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Ossus GmbH
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eponyms-for-students/id286025430
Website:
https://ossus.github.io/eponyms-app-website/

User Reviews

It looks like a useful idea, and I don’t doubt, from screenshots, that it works for some people; but on my up-to-date iPhone I get nothing but blank lines with arrows, clicking on which leads to blank pages.
by Bi*****, 2025-06-23

I've been using this app for many years. It's the easiest way to reference a lot of things. For example I use it frequently to recall named fractures like Galeazzi, Maisonneuve and Monteggia. I'm so glad it's been updated so it will work on the new iOS.
by 75*****, 2017-09-07

Update to 64 bit
by Dr*****, 2017-08-29
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