Jean-François Jarjavay

Jean-François Jarjavay (1815 to 1868) was a French anatomist and surgeon, born at Savignac-les-Églises in the Dordogne. He practised medicine in Paris at the Hôpital Lourcine and the Hôpital Beaujon, and in 1859 he became a professor of anatomy. In 1867 he gave the first description of the morbid processes associated with subacromial bursitis, the shoulder disorder also known as subacromial impingement syndrome. His name survives in anatomical eponyms: Jarjavay's ligament, a fold of peritoneum also called the sacrouterine fold, and Jarjavay's muscle, a structure arising from the ramus of the ischium and inserted into the constrictor muscle of the vagina. The record available for him is brief, centred on his hospital posts, his chair of anatomy and these two named structures.