List Of Medical Metaphors

Medical Metaphor, Simile, and Onomatopoeia

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There are medical metaphors that allude to weapons, sports, plants, trees, vegetables, fruits, seafood, cereals, crustaceans, and mythology. American writer Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) observed, “Metaphors may be as necessary to illness as …

Metaphors for medicine: revealing reflections or

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Metaphors for medicine: revealing reflections or just popular parodies? Free Deborah Kirklin Address for correspondence: Centre for Medical Humanities, …

Medical Metaphors & Ancedotal Analogies - Patient Friendly …

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Medical metaphors & Anecdotal Analogies. We all have those moments where we would like to make a complicated concept simple. A way to break down the education and …

Basic Medical Terminology: 100 Medical Phrases To Know

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A note on medical metaphors - Hektoen International

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Conventional metaphors abound in the general concepts of the opposing issues of health and disease, often couched in military terms. Trials include cohorts of …

“She’s a fighter!” and other metaphors in medicine

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War metaphor. Disease is the enemy (“I treat all my patients aggressively”) Physician is a warrior captain (“She’s a good fighter”) Patient is a battleground (“The war …

Metaphors in healthcare: to better …

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The main function of the use of metaphors in healthcare is the ‘ nominal’ one, in which the aim is to explain the definition of medical terminology (terminology level). …

Metaphor List: 50 Common Metaphor …

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Metaphors are generally divided into four main categories: simple, implied, extended, and literary. There is a fourth category, dead metaphors, which can cause the speaker …

List of 248 Metaphors, by Category — Lewis …

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Here are the most common words and phrases used in plant metaphors: Fruition Died on the vine Budding Come to full flower Offshoot Branches Seeds Planted …

100+ Common Metaphors with Meanings

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Here are the most common metaphors in Literature: “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” – Robert Frost “Hold fast to dreams, For when …