{"id":36974,"date":"2016-07-01T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=36974"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:58:31","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-more-medical-patronymics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/07\/01\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-more-medical-patronymics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . More medical patronymics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jeffrey_aronson\"<\/a>Last week<\/a> I discussed the various forms of patronymics that are formed by adding prefixes or suffixes meaning \u201cson\/child of,\u201d concentrating on UK varieties. Now I go further afield.<\/p>\n

The suffix -son is common in English speaking, Scandinavian, and Teutonic countries, spelt \u2013s\u00f8n and -sen in Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands, and -sohn in Germany. Sorensen is the son of Severinus (a patronymic) or Sarah (a metronymic). In most countries once a surname of this type is established it persists through the family line and becomes a hereditary surname rather than a true patronymic. If Peter son of John came to be called Peter Johnson, Peter\u2019s son David would not be called David Peterson, but David Johnson. Medical examples include Addison\u2019s disease (from Adam), Andersen\u2019s disease (Andrew), Hansen\u2019s disease (Johannes), Jacksonian epilepsy, Mendelson\u2019s syndrome, Nelson\u2019s syndrome (Neil), Parkinson\u2019s disease (Peterkin), Stevens\u2013Johnson syndrome, Thomsen\u2019s disease, Waterhouse\u2013Friderichsen syndrome, and Wilson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Other languages have -ian (Armenian), -npoika\/-ntyt\u00e4r (Finnish), -kind (German), -ides or -opoulos (Greek), -fi (Hungarian), -nejad (Iranian), -escu (Rumanian), and -o\u011flu (Turkish).<\/p>\n

Variants of the suffix -ovich\/-evich, feminine \u2013ovna\/-yevna\/-ichna, indicate \u201cchild of\u201d in Slavonic languages. Russians have a first name, a patronymic, and a surname. Leo Tolstoy\u2019s full name was Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Struggling to understand the dramatis personae in a Russian novel can be hard going for Western readers, because the characters are often called by several different names: the surname, the first name plus the surname, the first name plus the patronymic, or a diminutive pet name (such as Kolya, from Nikolai); furthermore, the patronymic can be shortened (for example, from Ivanovich to Ivanich). The famous mathematician, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, satirised in a song by Tom Lehrer<\/a>, might be called Nikolai, Nikolai Ivanovich, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Kolya, or Kolya Ivanich. Variants of this suffix in other tongues include -owicz (Polish) and -ovi\u0107 (Croatian).<\/p>\n

Medical examples include Wladislaus Onufrowicz, of the Onuf nucleus in the ventral spinal horn at S2; Casimir Filipovich, whose sign is yellow discoloration of the palms and soles in typhoid; and Eli Moschowitz (from Moses), whose syndrome is better known as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Sometimes -ovich is shortened to \u2013ov\/-ev or -ich. Korotkov of the sounds was named after someone called Kortoyga (Russian for \u201cShorty\u201d), Korsakov of the psychosis after Korsak (\u201cFoxy\u201d), and Pavlov of the conditioned reflex after Paul. Ivan Illich, author of the famous diatribe Medical Nemesis<\/em>, who popularised the concept of medicalisation<\/a>, was probably descended from someone called Ilya (Elias).<\/p>\n

The Russian word for an old woman is baba, which gives the metronym Babich. Babinski of the reflex is formed from Babich plus -inski, a common Slavonic suffix that denotes a place. So the original Babinski was born in a\u00a0place where an old woman (perhaps his mother or grandmother) lived.<\/p>\n

Ben in Hebrew means son of (female bat), also used as such in Tunisia. Benjamin means either son of my right hand or son of the south. The Benjamin syndrome is a congenital abnormality that includes hypochromic anaemia, dental caries, and a large head. However, most other common patronymics beginning with Ben, for example Benson, come from Benedict (blessed). Bin and ibn are the Arab equivalents of ben, as in Osama bin Laden (female bint).<\/p>\n

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The online Nobel Prize citation<\/a> for Baruj Benacerraf; his first name means \u201cblessed\u201d<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In many Arab countries names are formed from the individual\u2019s first name, followed by the father\u2019s name, followed by the family (tribal) name; sometimes the grandfather\u2019s name is also inserted. The Aramaic form is bar; add Talmai, mentioned in the book of Numbers, and you get Barthel scores, Barth\u00e9lemy’s disease, [Casper] Bartholin\u2019s cysts, duct, and glands, [Thomas] Bartholin\u2019s anus cerebri, and St Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Baruj Benacerraf, an Argentinian of Jewish descent, won the 1980 Nobel prize for his work on the \u201cgenetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions\u201d (picture). Acero, Spanish for steel, can refer to someone who makes swords or is inflexible. But perhaps -acerraf is derived from Asherov, the son of Asher (Hebrew, fortunate or blessed). If so, Benacerraf is a double patronymic.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong> is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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