A surname of Scottish origin, also referring to Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer typically affecting children and young adults.
From Scottish Gaelic, possibly from 'Eoghan' meaning 'born of the yew tree' or related to the Irish name Owen. The medical term honors James Ewing, the American pathologist who first described the cancer in 1921.
The transformation of 'Ewing' from an ancient Celtic name meaning 'yew tree descendant' to a modern medical eponym shows how surnames carry forward through millennia, sometimes gaining entirely new significance when attached to scientific discoveries.
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