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, …

Analogies and metaphors in clinical medicine - PubMed

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Medicine is traditionally known as an 'art', and not an exact 'science'. Medical images of clinical signs and pathology were communicated through 'metaphors' in the 19th …

Metaphors in healthcare: to better comprehend and to improve …

https://www.medicinanarrativa.eu/metaphors-in-healthcare-to-better-comprehend-and-to-improve-awareness

The main function of the use of metaphors in healthcare is the ‘nominal’ one, in which the aim is to explain the definition of …

Metaphors for medicine: revealing reflections or

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Phil Barker has suggested that metaphors are so widely used in relation to life and death because “Life is so real I can meaningfully represent it only in metaphor” 3 …

A note on medical metaphors - Hektoen International

https://hekint.org/2021/02/18/a-note-on-medical-metaphors/

The Trouble With Medicine's Metaphors - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/the-trouble-with-medicines-metaphors/374982/

Ultimately, any metaphor—military or otherwise—is not inherently good or bad. Rather, the utility of each depends on a patient’s culture, values, experiences, and preferences. Metaphors allow...

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 …

Metaphors in Medicine - S Y N A P S I S

https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2017/10/26/metaphors-in-medicine/

Rather than obscuring medical meaning, metaphors foster clarity and transfer significance effectively and economically. A metaphor (from the Greek root metaphora, to …

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

https://myheartsisters.org/2013/02/12/metaphors-in-medicine/

These wartime references are metaphors as described by Dr. Jack Coulehan, a physician, an award-winning poet, and editor of the 5th edition of The …

Being mindful of your metaphors in medicine

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You know that a metaphor (and simile, and analogy) is a comparison between two things: what’s relatively familiar, and what’s abstract or less well known. In research terms, the two halves of the …