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Jean-Martin Charcot Jean-Martin Charcot (; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurology, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot ...

(1825–1893), French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's name is associated with many diseases, anatomical structures and conditions including: :* Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a form of peroneal muscular atrophy :*

Charcot–Bouchard aneurysm Charcot–Bouchard aneurysms are aneurysms of the brain vasculature which occur in small blood vessels (less than 300 micrometre diameter). Charcot–Bouchard aneurysms are most often located in the lenticulostriate vessels of the basal ganglia a ...

s :*

Charcot–Leyden crystals Charcot–Leyden crystals are microscopic crystals composed of eosinophil protein galectin-10 found in people who have allergic diseases such as asthma or parasitic infections such as parasitic pneumonia or ascariasis. Appearance Charcot–Ley ...

:* Charcot's cholangitis triad of symptoms of ascending cholangitis :* Charcot's neurologic triad of symptoms of multiple sclerosis :* Some

anterolateral central arteries The lenticulostriate arteries, anterolateral central arteries, or antero-lateral ganglionic branches are a group of small arteries arising from the initial part M1 of the middle cerebral artery that supply the basal ganglia. Structure The lenticul ...

in the brain are known as Charcot's artery :*

Neuropathic arthropathy Neuropathic arthropathy (or neuropathic osteoarthropathy), also known as Charcot joint (often Charcot foot) after the first to describe it, Jean-Martin Charcot, refers to progressive degeneration of a weight-bearing joint, a process marked by bo ...

, Charcot's joint or Charcot foot :*

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...

, a motor neurone disease known as both Charcot's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease :* Charcot Wilbrand syndrome or visual agnosia, inability to recognize visual stimuli *

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...

(1867–1936), French explorer and physician, son of Jean-Martin Charcot

Places in Antarctica

Charcot Bay Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a no ...

Charcot Cove Charcot Cove is a re-entrant in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Bruce Point and Cape Hickey. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named this feature for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot Je ...

* Charcot Island * Charcot Plate, a tectonic plate under West Antarctica *

Cape Charcot Cape Charcot () is a rocky headland at the northeast end of the Melba Peninsula, west of David Island. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, 1911–14, who named it for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptist ...

* Charcot Station, a French research station in

Adélie Land Adélie Land (french: Terre Adélie, ) is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a portion of the Southern Ocean coastline all the way inland to the South Pole. France has administered it as one of five districts ...

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