An Austrian-born anatomist and pathologist, who first carried out detailed studies of the condition that now bears his name, as its eponymousA medical term is described as being eponymous when it is the name of a person or a place. The literal translation of the Greek word is “name placed upon”. Most often the name is that of a medical person who first described a condition. Sometimes it may be the name of a place where a disease first developed. Very occasionally it may be the name of a patient who was first recognised as having the condition to which the eponym is applied. term. It is now recognised that a Scottish-born anatomist, John Clelland, was the first person to describe the condition, in 1883. Hans Chiari published his initial work in 1891.