Sid Schwab on naming anatomy:
When it takes some effort — maybe a microscope or some really careful dissection — to discover something, it seems reasonable that your name gets attached. Islets of Langerhans. Ampulla of Vater. Sphincter of Oddi. Valves of Heister. Crypts of Morgani (he got “columns,” too.) But where’s the cutoff? I don’t get why Gabriele Falloppio got to name something as obvious and macroscopic as an oviduct. That’s not discovering. That’s noticing. We don’t have the Colon of Powell, or the Heart of Palm.
