Vilém Dušan Lambl

Vilém Dušan Lambl (5 December 1824, Letiny – 12 February 1895) was a Czech physician from Letina, Kreis Pilsen, Bohemia. He authored his medical publications, which were in German, as Wilhelm Lambl.

Vilém Dušan Lambl

Lambl had a keen interest in the field of linguistics, particularly Slavic languages. After earning his degree in medicine from the University of Prague, he traveled extensively in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, conducting research of southern Slavic languages and culture. Following his return to Prague, he worked at Josef von Löschner's children's hospital until 1860, when he accepted a position at Kharkiv University.

Vilém Dušan Lambl photographed as a young man

He is remembered for his description of an intestinal protozoan parasite that was initially discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), and is a cause of gastroenteritis. Lambl called the protozoan Cercomonas intestinalis. In 1888 the name was changed to Lamblia intestinalis by zoologist Raphael Anatole Émile Blanchard (1819–1900). In 1915 the species was renamed to Giardia lamblia by American zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles (1867–1941) in honor of Lambl and French biologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908). Today the illness caused by the parasite is called either "lambliasis" or "giardiasis".

With Löschner, he published "Aus dem Franz Josef-Kinder-Spitale in Prag", Part one: "Beobachtungen und Studien aus dem Gebiete der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie" (1860),[1][2] ("From the Franz-Josefs-Kinder-Spital in Prague, Observations and studies from the fields of pathological anatomy and histology").

Lambl's "excrescence"s, which he described in a publication from 1856, are still important today as an anatomic feature essential to physiologic valvular coaptation; especially in the aortic valve.

Eponym named after Lambl
  • Lambl's excrescences: Small fibrin deposits on the aortic valve.
  • Lambl's excrescences: Foot of a gecko guiding valvular coaptation.
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References
  • Vilem Dusan Lambl @ Who Named It
  • Lipoldová, Marie (2014). "Giardia and Vilém Dušan Lambl". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 8 (5): e2686. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002686. PMC 4014406.
  1. Bibliography of Lambl @ Who Named It
  2. Löschner (Freiherr von), Joseph Wilhelm; Lambl, D. F. (1 January 2012). Aus dem Franz Josef-Kinder-Spitale in Prag. Nabu Press. ASIN 1273503201.


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