Eponyms
Charcot's name is associated with many diseases and conditions including:
- Charcot's artery (lenticulostriate artery)
- Charcot's joint (diabetic arthropathy)
- Charcot's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the most-common subtype of motor neurone disease – also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
- Charcot's douche, a very energetic form of massage with a water jet, offered at many spas, especially popular in eastern Europe.
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (peroneal muscular atrophy)
- Charcot Wilbrand syndrome (visual agnosia and loss of ability to revisualise images)
- Charcot's intermittent hepatic fever (intermittent pain, intermittent fever, intermittent jaundice, and loss of weight)
- Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms (tiny aneurysms of the penetrating branches of middle cerebral artery in hypertensives)
- Charcot's triad
- Charcot arthropathy
- Charcot-Leyden crystals due to eosinophils white blood cells lysis in cases of allergic diseases.
- Souques-Charcot geroderma: a variant of Hutchinson-Gilford disease; named with Alexandre-Achille Souques.
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