Medical Metaphor

Medical Metaphor, Simile, and Onomatopoeia

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Chapter 6 discusses medical metaphor, simile, and onomatopoeia, the latter often called echoic words. Health-care professionals use metaphoric words and similes often, both in clinical discourse and in speaking with patients: words such as “train wreck,” “biological clock,” “orphan drug,” “thunderclap headache,” and ...

Metaphors in healthcare: to better …

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

Although these characteristics make the metaphor perfect for medical-scientific communication, …

A note on medical metaphors - Hektoen International

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

Analogies and metaphors in clinical medicine - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22372224/

Standard medical textbooks contain metaphors that have become entrenched in teaching, learning and examining in medical schools and hospitals worldwide. The continued use …

Metaphors for medicine: revealing reflections or

https://mh.bmj.com/content/27/2/89

Medical humanities; special study module; medical education; metaphor; literature and medicine “‘ . . .before you get spoilt by it all. Before you become a fully …

The Trouble With Medicine's Metaphors

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

In medicine, the use of metaphor is pervasive. Antibiotics clog up bacterial machinery by disrupting the supply chain. Diabetes coats red blood cells with sugar …

Being mindful of your metaphors in medicine

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Improving Your Medical Metaphors A 1-hour on-demand workshop that will help you get the most out of the metaphors you use. This workshop goes beyond the …

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 …

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

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

Physician is a warrior captain (“She’s a good fighter”) Patient is a battleground (“The war on cancer”) ♥. Dr. Coulehan believes that contemporary medicine …

Medical metaphors | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2415

Medical metaphors. Greece’s economic woes are, apparently, spreading “like Ebola virus,” and fear of contagion has gripped Europe’s financial markets. …