Eponyms For Students (Free)
Version 1.1
REVIEW – “Eponyms? If you don’t know what it means, don’t bother”
I’ll help you out with this one. An eponym is a word that is derived from a person’s name. Eponyms For Students is meant for medical students, so the eponyms on this app are medical. Cooper’s hernia, Guyon’s tunnel and the loop of Henle are all available on Eponyms For Students.
The app features over 1,600 medical eponyms. The first time you open the app it quickly loads the database and then everything is accessible even without an internet connection.
The main screen allows you to choose how you want to search for eponyms. Users have the option of looking at all eponyms, or eponyms from specific categories of the medical field. Users can also select to see recently viewed eponyms, or a list they have created themselves.
Once you have selected how you want to access the eponyms you are given an alphabetical list of all the eponyms. Tap one and you’ll be given the definition and what medical fields the word is pertinent to. These fields are abbreviated, so you have to know what you are dealing with to use this app. Actually, that statement goes for the whole app. You are probably a medical student if you are interested in looking up the meanings of eponyms. Unlike a medical dictionary, this app features only things named after people. So using it to look up a condition or symptom isn’t possible – unless it is named after someone. Eponyms For Students is very narrow in its audience, but it’s probably very useful to them.
There is a search feature, which is easy to use by simply tapping the magnifying glass. The entire app is easy to use, but somewhat boring to look at. Very gray and black and white. But again, how interesting can a list of medical eponyms really be?
The most powerful feature of Eponyms For Students is the ability to mark certain words. If you tap the star in the upper right hand corner of any definition, it will add it to a “starred eponyms” list. Then, from the main screen you can look through the list of starred entries. Very useful for anyone needing a specific list, like for studying.
Overall, the average user isn’t going to find any use for Eponyms For Students. The resourceful medical student however…
- Melissa S.
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Developer – Pascal Pfiffner
URL: http://code.google.com/p/eponyms-touch/
Developer’s Notes: Eponyms brings a short description of more than 1’600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing’s sign, Virchow’s node) to your iPhone 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/) who still maintains the database, updates can be installed right from within Eponyms.
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