# Charcot

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**Charcot** may refer to:

## People

- [Jean-Martin Charcot](/source/Jean-Martin_Charcot) (1825–1893), French neurologist

Jean-Martin Charcot's name is associated with many diseases, anatomical structures and conditions including:

- - [Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease](/source/Charcot%E2%80%93Marie%E2%80%93Tooth_disease), a form of peroneal muscular atrophy - [Charcot–Bouchard aneurysms](/source/Charcot%E2%80%93Bouchard_aneurysm) - [Charcot–Leyden crystals](/source/Charcot%E2%80%93Leyden_crystals) - [Charcot's cholangitis triad](/source/Charcot's_cholangitis_triad) of symptoms of ascending cholangitis - [Charcot's neurologic triad](/source/Charcot's_neurologic_triad) of symptoms of multiple sclerosis - Some [anterolateral central arteries](/source/Anterolateral_central_arteries) in the brain are known as Charcot's artery - [Neuropathic arthropathy](/source/Neuropathic_arthropathy), Charcot's joint or Charcot foot - [Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis](/source/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis), a motor neurone disease known as both Charcot's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease - Charcot Wilbrand syndrome or [visual agnosia](/source/Visual_agnosia), inability to recognize visual stimuli

- [Jean-Baptiste Charcot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Charcot) (1867–1936), French explorer and physician, son of Jean-Martin Charcot

## Places in Antarctica

- [Charcot Bay](/source/Charcot_Bay)
- [Charcot Cove](/source/Charcot_Cove)
- [Charcot Island](/source/Charcot_Island)
- [Charcot Plate](/source/Charcot_Plate), a tectonic plate under West Antarctica
- [Cape Charcot](/source/Cape_Charcot)
- Charcot Station, a French research station in [Adélie Land](/source/Ad%C3%A9lie_Land)

## See also

- [Charcot disease (disambiguation)](/source/Charcot_disease_(disambiguation))
- [Charlot (name)](/source/Charlot_(name))

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