Surprisingly, there are a good half-dozen medical eponyms that come
from Nazi doctors who performed experiments on unwilling human subjects
or used bodies of executed prisoners in their work — often in the course
of discovering the very things that now bear their names. Clara cells,
for instance, are a type of cell that lines small airways in your lungs.
They're named for Max Clara,
who discovered them by dissecting executed political prisoners.
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