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

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

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. 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, a disorder also known as subacromial

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

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that is also known as a sacrouterine fold, and "Jarjavay's muscle", which is a structure arising from the ramus 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
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(definition of eponyms) French surgeons French anatomists 1815 births 1868 deaths People from Dordogne {{France-med-bio-stub