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Asked by Ganty_27 to Craig on 24 Jun 2015.
Question: How many people have hormones named after them.
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Craig Doig answered on 24 Jun 2015:
People don’t tend to name hormones after themselves. Instead they give them names according to where they are made or their primary function… things like that.
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Ganty_27 commented on :
Thanks
Saffron commented on :
That said Craig there are lots of diseases named after people who discoveed them like Addison’s disease, Graves disease, Klinefelter’s syndrome, Turner’s syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome to name just a few. Some aren’t, like diabetes which comes from the word honey to reflect the sweet smelling urine that is excreted in untreated diabetic patients.