This is a list of human anatomical parts named after people.
For clarity, entries are listed by the name of the person associated with them, so Loop of Henle is listed under H not L.
Achilles tendon – Achilles, Greek mythological character
Adam's apple – Adam, Biblical character
Alcock's canal (pudendal canal) – Benjamin Alcock (1801–1859?), Irish anatomist
Artery of Adamkiewicz – Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist
Auerbach's plexus – Leopold Auerbach
Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist
Balbiani bodies – Édouard-Gérard Balbiani
Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
Batson's plexus – Oscar Vivian Batson (1894–1979), American anatomist
Long thoracic nerve of Bell – Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish surgeon-anatomist
Duct of Bellini – Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian anatomist
Renal columns of Bertin – Exupere Joseph Bertin (1712–1781), French anatomist
Betz cells – Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (1834–1894), Ukrainian histologist
Billroth's cords – Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), Austrian surgeon
Bowman's capsule and Bowman's membrane – Sir William Bowman (1816–1892), English surgeon-anatomist
Broca's area – Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon-anatomist
Brodmann's areas – Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), German neurologist
Brunner's glands – Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), Swiss anatomist
Buck's fascia – Gurdon Buck (1807–1877), American surgeon
Cajal cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist
Cajal–Retzius cell – Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), Swedish histologist
Calyx of Held – Hans Held (1866–1942), German Anatomist
Calot's triangle – Jean-François Calot (1861–1944), French surgeon
Chassaignac tubercle – Charles Marie Édouard Chassaignac (1804–1879), French physician
Clara cell – Max Clara (1899–1966), German anatomist
Cloquet's canal – Jules Cloquet (1790–1883), French Anatomist
Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Irish surgeon
Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon
Cooper's iliopectineal ligament – Astley Cooper
Cooper's suspensory ligaments – Astley Cooper
Organ of Corti – Alfonso Corti (1822–1876), Italian microanatomist
Cowper's glands – William Cowper (1666–1709), English surgeon-anatomist
Cuvier ducts – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French Naturalist and comparative anatomist
Darwin's tubercle – Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British Naturalist
Denonvilliers' fascia – Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (1808–1872), French surgeon
Descemet's membrane – Jean Descemet (1732–1810), French physician
Space of Disse – Joseph Disse (1852–1912), German histologist
Dorello's canal – Primo Dorello (1872–1963), Italian Anatomist.
Pouch of Douglas, Douglas' line – James Douglas (1675–1742), Scottish anatomist
Von Ebner's glands – Victor von Ebner (1842–1925), German histologist
Edinger–Westphal nucleus – Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918), German neuroanatomist, and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), German neurologist
Eustachian tube – Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500 / 1514 / 1520–1574), Italian anatomist
Fallopian tube – Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562), Italian anatomist
Gallaudet's fascia – Bern Budd Gallaudet (1860–1934), American anatomist
Gartner's duct – Hermann Treschow Gartner (1785–1827), Danish surgeon-anatomist
Gerdy's Fibers – Pierre Nicolas Gerdy (1797–1856), French physician
Gerota Capsule – Dumitru Gerota (1867–1939), Romanian urology surgeon-anatomist
Giacomini vein – Carlo Giacomini (1840–1898) Italian anatomist
Glisson's capsule – Francis Glisson (1599?–1677), English anatomist
Golgi apparatus and Golgi receptor – Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian pathologist
Graafian follicle – Regnier de Graaf (1641–1673), Dutch anatomist
Gräfenberg spot (G-spot) – Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957), German-American gynecologist
Great vein of Galen and the other veins of Galen – Galen (129 AD – 200 / 216 AD), an ancient Greek physician
Hartmann's pouch – Henri Hubert Vadim Hartmann (1860–1952), German Surgeon
Hasner's Fold – Joseph Hasner (1819–1892), Austrian ophthalmologist
Haversian canal – Clopton Havers (1657–1702), English physician
Spiral valves of Heister – Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), German surgeon-anatomist
Loop of Henle – F. G. J. Henle (1809–1885), German pathologist
Canals of Hering – Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), German physiologist
Hering's nerve – Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866–1948), Austrian physician
Herring bodies – Percy Theodore Herring (1872–1967), English physiologist
Heschl's gyri – Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist
Hesselbach's triangle – Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759–1816), German surgeon-anatomist
Antrum of Highmore – Nathaniel Highmore (1613–1685), English surgeon-anatomist
Bundle of His – Wilhelm His, Jr. (1863–1934), Swiss cardiologist
Houston's muscle (Bulbocavernous Penile Fibers) – John Houston (1802–1845), Irish anatomist
Houston's valves – John Houston (1802-1845), Irish anatomist
Canal of Huguier – Pierre Charles Huguier (1804–1878), French surgeon-gynecologist
Hurthle cell – Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German histologist
Kerckring's valves – Theodor Kerckring (1638–1693), Dutch anatomist
Kernohan notch – James Watson Kernohan (1896–1981), Irish-American pathologist
Kiesselbach's plexus – Wilhelm Kiesselbach
Pores of Kohn – Hans Kohn
Krause's end-bulbs – Wilhelm Krause
Kupffer cells – Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
Langer's lines – Karl Langer
Islets of Langerhans and Langerhans cell – Paul Langerhans
Langhans giant cell – Theodor Langhans
Lauth's canal – Thomas Lauth
Leydig Cells – Franz Leydig
Crypts of Lieberkühn – Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
Lissauer's tract – Heinrich Lissauer
Lister's tubercle
Kiesselbach's plexus
Urethral glands of Littré – Alexis Littré
Lockwood's ligament – Charles Barrett Lockwood
Angle of Louis – Antoine Louis
Lovibond's angle
Lund's node
Crypts of Luschka, Ducts of Luschka, Foramina of Luschka, and Luschka's joints – Hubert von Luschka
Macewen's triangle – Sir William Macewen
Foramen of Magendie – François Magendie
McBurney's point – Charles McBurney
Malpighian corpuscle – Marcello Malpighi, the name given to both renal corpuscle and splenic lymphoid nodules
Meckel's cartilage and Meckel's diverticulum – Johann Friedrich Meckel
Meibomian glands – Heinrich Meibom
Meissner's corpuscle and Meissner's plexus – Georg Meissner
Merkel cell – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
Meyer's loop
Moll's gland – Jacob Anton Moll
Space of Möll –
Foramina of Monro – Alexander Monro
Glands of Montgomery – William Fetherstone Montgomery
Hydatids of Morgagni, and Lacunae of Morgagni – Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Morison's pouch – James Rutherford Morison
Müllerian ducts – Johannes Peter Müller
Nissl bodies or granules and Nissl substance – Franz Nissl
Sphincter of Oddi – Ruggero Oddi
Pacinian corpuscles – Filippo Pacini
Paneth cells – Joseph Paneth
Papez circuit – James Papez
Artery of Percheron – Gerard Percheron
Peyer's patches – Johann Conrad Peyer
Poupart's ligament – François Poupart
Prussak's space – Alexander Prussak
Purkinje cells – Jan E. Purkinje
Purkinje fibres – Jan E. Purkinje
Pimenta's Point
Island of Reil – Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813)
Node of Ranvier – Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Rathke's pouch – Martin Heinrich Rathke
Reichert cartilage – Karl Bogislaus Reichert
Renshaw cells – Birdsey Renshaw (1908–1948)
Space of Retzius and Veins of Retzius – Anders Retzius
Riedel's lobe – Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky and Ludwig Aschoff
Rolandic fissure and fissure of Rolando – Luigi Rolando
Rotter's lymph nodes – Josef Rotter
Ruffini's corpuscles – Angelo Ruffini
Duct of Santorini – Giovanni Domenico Santorini
Canal of Schlemm – Friedrich Schlemm
Schwann Cell – Theodor Schwann
Sehgal's Crack – Pravin B. Sehgal
Sertoli cell – Enrico Sertoli
Sharpey's fibres – William Sharpey
Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell
Skene's gland – Alexander Skene
Spiegelian fascia, Spiegelian line, Spiegelian lobe – Adriaan van den Spiegel
Stensen's duct – Niels Stensen
Stilling's canal
Struthers' ligament – Sir John Struthers
Sylvian aqueduct – Franciscus Sylvius
Thebesian foramina – Adam Christian Thebesius
Thebesian valve – Adam Christian Thebesius
Thebesian vein – Adam Christian Thebesius
Thorel's pathway – Carl Thorel (1859–1938)
White lines of Toldt – Carl Toldt
Torcular herophili – Herophilus
Traube's space – Ludwig Traube
Ligament of Treitz – Václav Treitz
Sinus of Valsalva – Antonio Maria Valsalva
Ampulla of Vater – Abraham Vater
Limbus of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
Valve of Vieussens – Raymond Vieussens
Vieussens valve of the Coronary Sinus – Raymond Vieussens
Virchow–Robin spaces – Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin
Virchow's node – Rudolf Virchow
Waldeyer's tonsillar ring – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
Weibel–Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel and George Emil Palade
Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach
Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke
Wharton's duct and Wharton's jelly – Thomas Wharton
Circle of Willis – arterial circle in base of brain – Dr. Thomas Willis (1621–1675), English physician
Foramen of Winslow – Jean-Jacques Bénigne Winslow
Duct of Wirsung – Johann Georg Wirsung
Wolffian duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
Wormian bones – Ole Worm
Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn