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A disease, structure, operation, or procedure, named for the person who discovered or described it first is:

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The term is Eponym.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • An eponym is a person or a thing whether its real or fictional after which a person,tribe,era or other item is named.

Example of eponyms:

  1. Parkinson disease: named after James Parkinson,English physician who first described it in 1817 as a shaking palsy.
  2. Adam, Biblical character -- Adam's apple
  3. Thomas Addison- Addison's disease
  4. Achilles, Greek mythological character- Achilles heel,Achilles tendon
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