Place each structural name in the proper category in order to indicate whether the name is an eponym or accepted term based on Latin, Greek, or English roots.

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Adriana Novak

17 April, 20:01

Place each structural name in the proper category in order to indicate whether the name is an eponym or accepted term based on Latin, Greek, or English roots.

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Perforating fibers: Accepted term based

Meissner corpuscle: Eponym (discovered by Georg Meissner and Rudolf Wagner)

Islets of Langerhans: Eponym (discovered by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans).

Intestinal Crypts: Accepted term based

Nephron loop: Accepted term based

Loop of Henle: Eponym (discovered by German anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle).

Tactile Cells: Accepted term

Crypts of Lieberkühn: Eponym (discovered by German anatomist Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn.

Brunner's Gland: Eponym (discovered by Swiss physician, Johann Conrad Brunner).

Sharpey's fibers: Eponym (discovered by Scottish anatomist William Sharpey).

Bundle of His: Eponym (discovered by cardiologist and anatomist Wilhelm His Jr).

Hepatopancreatic sphincter: Accepted term based