François Poupart (1661–1709) French physician,

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

and

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. He described Poupart's ligament, which had been discovered by

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.Medical Terminology Daily: Francois Poupart
/ref> In 1789, botanists published '' Poupartia'' a genus of plants from Islands in the

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in family

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. It was named in Poupart's honour. Then in 2006, botanists published ''

Poupartiopsis ''Poupartiopsis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae. The only species is ''Poupartiopsis spondiocarpus''. Description It is a modest-sized forest tree. Range and habitat ''Poupartiopsis spondiocarpus ...

''. a genus of

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s from

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, belonging to the family

and also named in Francois honour.

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