An unusual example of eponymous confusion: ganglion of Meckel

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Morphological eponyms are often identified by the surnames of the scientists who first described the structures. Although most of the morphological eponyms have been abandoned over time, some of them are still widely used [1]. On the other hand, the issue of moving away from eponyms is still controversial in the literature. The reason for using eponyms is that the names of some formations are usually expressed as eponyms rather than the standard terminology or the idea of honoring the people who define these structures [2]. On the other hand, it is also stated that the use of eponyms causes many confusions. The most obvious of these confusions is the existence of more than one structure referred to by the surname of a scientist, the eponyms used to refer to more than one scientist with the same surname, or the writing of the same scientist’s surname in different ways for a single structure [1, 3, 4]. …