William Osler

Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician.

Eponyms

Osler lent his name to a number of diseases and symptoms.

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• Osler's sign is an artificially high blood pressure reading due to atherosclerotic arteries.
• Osler's nodes are painful indentations on the muscular pads of hands and feet, a symptom of infectious endocarditis.
• Rendu-Osler-Weber disease (also known as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) is a syndrome of multiple vascular malformations on the skin, in the nasal and oral mucosa, in the lungs and elsewhere.
• Osler-Vaquez disease (also known as Polycythemia vera)