Jean-François Jarjavay (25 April 1815 – 22 April 1868) was a French

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 surgeon who was a native of Savignac-les-Églises in the department of

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named af ...

. He practised medicine at the Hôpital Lourcine and Hôpital Beaujon in Paris, and in 1859 became a professor of anatomy. In 1867 Jarjavay provided the first description of the morbid processes associated with

subacromial bursitis Subacromial bursitis is a condition caused by inflammation of the Synovial bursa, bursa that separates the superior surface of the supraspinatus muscle, supraspinatus tendon (one of the four tendons of the rotator cuff) from the overlying coraco-ac ...

, a disorder also known as subacromial

impingement syndrome Shoulder impingement syndrome is a syndrome involving tendonitis (inflammation of tendons) of the rotator cuff muscles as they pass through the subacromial space, the passage beneath the acromion. It is particularly associated with tendonitis of t ...

. His name is lent to "Jarjavay's ligament", which is a fold of

peritoneum The peritoneum is the serous membrane forming the lining of the abdominal cavity or coelom in amniotes and some invertebrates, such as annelids. It covers most of the intra-abdominal (or coelomic) organs, and is composed of a layer of mesoth ...

that is also known as a sacrouterine fold, and "Jarjavay's muscle", which is a structure arising from the

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of the

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and inserted into the constrictor muscle of the

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Written works

Among his written works is an 1856 book on the

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titled ''Recherches anatomiques sur l’urèthre de l’homme''. Other noted works are as follows: * ''Propositions d'anatomie, de physiologie et de chirurgie'' (1846) * ''De l'influence des efforts sur la production des maladies chirurgicales'' (1847) * ''Mémoire sur les fongus du testicule'' (1849) * ''Des fractures des articulations'' (1851) * ''Traité d'anatomie chirurgicale'' (1852–54).IDREF.fr
(publications)

References

(definition of eponyms) French surgeons French anatomists 1815 births 1868 deaths People from Dordogne {{France-med-bio-stub