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Convention: Non-Possessive Eponyms

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This course writes eponyms without the possessive: Parkinson disease, Down syndrome, Crohn disease.

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Alzheimer disease appears in this course; Alzheimer's disease does not.

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Both forms are in current use and charts will show either. This is a declared convention, not a correction.

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