Dermatology: one of the most descriptive fields of medicine

Any scientific discipline requires a sharply defined set of words for exact and reproducible communication. Dermatology lexicon is very rich with descriptive terminology. This descriptiveness is because of frequent use of eponyms and toponyms. In dermatology literature, every now and then we see eponymous words, toponymous words, eponymous adjectives and phrases. An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name