An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of specific place names as part of their tales ; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the etiological legends.

In some cultures, polygenism in the creation narrative served an etiological function.

Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as ' naturalistic ' including the ' functional generalization ' view of John Pollock, the evolutionary / etiological account provided by Ruth Millikan, and a dispositional view held by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter.

One proposal to resolve this difficulty holds that the account of Ai's conquest in the Book of Joshua is not meant to be historical, but etiological ; that is, the writers of the Bible noted the presence of a great, impressive local ruin ( the remains of the Early Bronze city ) and sought to explain this destruction in terms of a legendary ancestor.

An etiological myth-element, to account for the name Cypselus ( cypsele ( κυψἐλη ) " chest ") accounted how Labda then hid the baby in a chest, and when the men had composed themselves and returned to kill it, they could not find it.

" Some archeologists and biblical scholars have suggested that the Biblical account of the conquest of Ai derives from an etiological myth-a type of tale which " explains the origin of a custom, state of affairs, or natural feature in the human or divine world ."< ref >" myth.

An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.

While Delphi is actually related to the word (" womb "), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology ( the term " Amazon ", for example ).

This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

In the etiological myth that accounted for the origin of rituals propitiating the daimon of Epopeus, it was told that Zeus impregnated Antiope, who, being the wife of Nycteus, fled in shame to Epopeus, king of Sicyon, abandoning her children, Amphion and Zethus.

This has led to the hypothesis of sympathoadrenal hyperactivity ( results from removing tonic inhibition from the sympathetic nervous system ) as an etiological mechanism for NMS.

While the etiology of conduct disorder is complicated by an intricate interplay of biological and environmental factors, identifying etiological mechanisms is crucial for obtaining accurate assessment and implementing effective treatment.

a ) The transition between a dominant system designed for acute infectious pathology to a system designed for chromic degenerative pathology without any specific etiological therapy.

Some of the Hyantes are said to have emigrated to isolated and pastoral Phocis, where they founded Hyampolis, or at least that gave a good etiological explanation for the city's name.

* Less commonly reported etiological bacteria are responsible for so called " culture negative endocarditis ".

They may or may not be symptomatic, and their etiological significance for back pain is controversial.

They may or may not be symptomatic, and their etiological significance for back pain is controversial.

The Manciple, a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow, which is both an etiological myth explaining the crow's black feathers, and a moralistic injunction against Gossip.

An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.

An etiological Babylonian story that was later incorporated into Greek and Roman mythology attributes the reddish purple color of the white mulberry ( Morus alba ) fruits to the tragic deaths of the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe.

Some Biblical scholars view this as an etiological myth created in hindsight to explain the tribe's name and connect it to the other tribes in the Israelite confederation.

The etiological myth explaining how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described by Herodotus, Apollodorus, Ovid, Plutarch, Pausanias and others.

The etiological agent was named by him as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and was first grown by Hayflick on a medium he developed and that bears his name.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag ( above ), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water ( from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen ).

These results are not unexpected due to the significant etiological differences in steroid-induced gynecomastia ( excess estrogen ) and pubertal gynecomastia ( hypersensitive tissue ).

It is not uncommon that more than one avian tumor virus can be present in a chicken, thus one must consider both the diagnosis of the disease / tumors ( pathological diagnosis ) and of the virus ( etiological diagnosis ).

Such tales are common in folklore and mythology ( where they are known as etiological myths — see etiology ).

The eponym was bestowed by Jean-Martin Charcot ( 1825 – 1893 ) on behalf of his resident, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette ( 1859 – 1904 ), a French physician and neurologist, who published an account of nine patients with Tourette's in 1885.

In the Biblical account, Joseph was the brother to Benjamin, the other son of Rachel and Jacob, and the eponym of the Tribe of Benjamin, which was located on the immediate south of the tribe of Joseph ; the birth of Benjamin does not appear in the passage in which the births of the other sons of Jacob occur, but instead appears elsewhere, with Benjamin being born only once Jacob had returned to Canaan.

He is the eponym of the Dandelin spheres, of Dandelin's theorem in geometry ( for an account of that theorem, see Dandelin spheres ), and of the Dandelin – Gräffe numerical method of solution of algebraic equations.

Maecenas is most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become the eponym for a " patron of arts ".

His name is the eponym of chauvinism, a term for excessive nationalistic fervor.

One who is referred to as eponymous is someone who is the eponym of something, for example, " Léon Theremin, the eponymous inventor of the theremin ".

In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα, a name that Philo of Byblos subsequently adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: " Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix ".

As a tribute to him, she decided to build him a tomb so famous that Mausolus's name is now the eponym for all stately tombs, in the word mausoleum.

Pausanias ( 2. 15. 3 ) mentions his daughter Nemea, eponym for the region of the same name ( possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ).

He is the eponym of Troy, also named Ilion for his son Ilus.

He succeeded his father, Aššur-nāṣir-apli I and ruled for 12 years according to the Assyrian Kinglist and confirmed by a heavily damaged fragment of an eponym list ( pictured ).

Among the nine Louisiana parishes ( counties ) named for " saints " ( see " List of parishes of Louisiana "), St. Tammany is the only one whose eponym is not a saint as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical parishes of which formed the basis for civil parishes prior to statehood.

The name is possibly an eponym for the god Freyr.

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, against the usual intentions of the trademark's holder.

Some examples of the latter type from the vocabulary of physicians include the names Luer-Lok ( Luer lock ) and Port-a-Cath ( portacath ), which have genericized mind share ( among physicians ) because ( 1 ) the users may not realize that the term is a brand name rather than a medical eponym or generic-etymology term, and ( 2 ) no alternate generic name for the idea readily comes to mind.

It has since become the prototype and eponym for a class of variable stars called W Ursae Majoris variables.

While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it.

They might also be considered, when an eponym is sought for sauce Mornay.

* eponym: a botanical, zoological, artwork, or place name that derives from a real or legendary person ; a name for a real or hypothetical person from whom a botanical, geographical, artwork or zoological name is derived ; a person after whom a medical condition is named, or the condition so named.

" The event lasts over two months, starting from the twelfth of the seventh month to the fifteenth of the ninth month by the Chinese lunar calendar, and spans for a total of 63 days, giving rise to its eponym as " the world ’ s longest festival ".

The saltwater coast of the area is the eponym for Katmai Bay ( CGC 101 ), a United States Coast Guard cutter tugboat icebreaker.

He developed the Bridgman seal and is the eponym for Bridgman's thermodynamic equations.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico ( the United States did not appoint ambassadors until 1896 ), a U. S. Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a cofounder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts ( a predecessor of the Smithsonian Institution ), as well as the eponym of Poinsett County, Arkansas ; Poinsett Highway, Poinsett Bridge, and Poinsett State Park in South Carolina ; Lake Poinsett in South Dakota ; and the poinsettia, a popular Christmas flower.

It is the eponym for the Gallery Place Washington Metro station, located across the intersection of F and 7th Streets, Northwest.

He is also the eponym for San Bruno Creek in California.