Visual analogies in anatomic and clinical pathology

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1 Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States
2 Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
3 National Centre for Growth and Development, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
4 Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
5 Department of Pathology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
6 Department of Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2147v2
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Pathology
Keywords
Microscope, pathology, metaphor, analogy, food
Copyright
© 2016 Kipersztok et al.
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Kipersztok L, Masukume G, Lakhtakia R, Cohen MB. 2016. Visual analogies in anatomic and clinical pathology. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2147v2

Abstract

Visual medical analogies have been utilized by multiple medical disciplines for decades. Despite misgivings that some might have about such analogies, they act as excellent learning aids and will undoubtedly remain useful for decades to come. The microscope from about the seventeenth century onwards revolutionized medicine and cellular biology. In this article, we specifically consider in a pictorial essay culinary medical analogies as they pertain to the microscopic world, a gap in the literature on visual medical analogies.

Author Comment

There was inadvertent omission of the senior author. Apologies. The senior author is now added.

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