Vincent Bochdalek

Vincent Bochdalek
Vincent Bochdalek
Born(1801-02-11)11 February 1801
Skřipov, Austrian Silesia
Died3 February 1883(1883-02-03) (aged 81)
Scientific career
Fieldsanatomy

Vincent Alexander Bochdalek (also Vincenc or Vincenz; 11 February 1801 – 3 February 1883) was a Czech anatomist and pathologist. Bochdalek was elected as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[1]

Biography

Bochdalek was born in Skřipov on 11 February 1801. He graduated from the gymnasium in Opava.[2] He obtained his doctorate in 1833 in Prague, where he was later professor of anatomy for several decades. He retired in 1874, settling in Litoměřice and later dying in Litoměřice on 3 February 1883. His son, Viktor Bochdalek (1835–1868), became a prominent physician in his own right.

Associated eponyms

  • Bochdalek's cyst: a congenital cyst at the root of the tongue.
  • Bochdalek's flower basket: part of the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle protruding through the lateral bursa (recessus lateralis) of the fourth ventricle (Luschka's foramen).
  • Bochdalek's foramen: a congenital defective opening through the diaphragm, connecting pleural and peritoneal cavities.
  • Bochdalek's ganglion: a ganglion of dental nerve in the jaw (maxilla) above the root of the canine teeth.
  • Bochdalek's hernia: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia which allows protrusion of abdominal viscera into the chest.
  • Bochdalek's triangle: the lumbocostal triangle, a triangle-shaped slit in the muscle plate between lumbar and costal part in the diaphragm and the 12th rib.
  • Bochdalek's valve: a fold of membrane in the lacrimal duct near the punctum lacrimale. Another name for this structure is Foltz' valvule; named after French ophthalmologist Jean Charles Eugène Foltz (1822–1876).
  • Vater's duct: a duct that in the embryo connects the thyroid diverticulum and the posterior part of the tongue.

Bibliography

  • Anleitung zur praktischen Zergliederung des menschlichen Gehirns nebst einer anatomischen Beschreibung desselben mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das kleine Gehirn. 1833.
  • Neue Untersuchungen und genaue Würdigung der Nerven des Ober- und Unterkiefers.
  • Medizinische Jahrbücher des kaiserlich-königlichen österreichischen Staates, Vienna 1836, 19: 223–240. (With the description of the ganglion supramaxillare)

References

  1. ↑ "Mitgliederverzeichnis". Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  2. ↑ "Velikán české anatomie a patologie 19. století: Vincenc Alexandr Bochdalek". Praktický lékař (in Czech). 2: 86–90. 2015 – via proLékaře.cz.

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