Medical eponyms linked to Saudi Arabia.

I this editorial, we are going to shed some light on selected medical eponyms that are linked to Saudi Arabia. Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things).1 Saudi Arabia as any other countries in the world have witnessed discovery of new microbes, diseases or syndromes that were reported by Saudi and non-Saudi authors. Some of these were later named with names of the authors who reported it or the place in which they were reported first. We have listed in Table 1,2-7 some selected medical eponyms related to Saudi Arabia.