"Metaphor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The application of a concept to that which it is not literally the same but which suggests a resemblance and comparison. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the State, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system. (From Med Secoli Arte Sci, 1990;2(3):abstract 331)
| Descriptor ID |
D019365
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.400.899.500 K01.752.798.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Metaphor" by people in this website by year, and whether "Metaphor" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Metaphor" by people in Profiles.
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Brain responses to a lab-evolved artificial language with space-time metaphors. Cognition. 2024 05; 246:105763.
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"Fighting the Ventilator": Abandoning Exclusionary Violence Metaphors in the Intensive Care Unit. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 11; 20(11):1550-1553.
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The use and meaning of the parachute metaphor in biomedicine: a citation analysis of a systematic review and a randomized trial of the parachute for freefall. J Comp Eff Res. 2022 04; 11(6):383-390.
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Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension. Brain Lang. 2022 03; 226:105081.
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Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women's reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-19. Med Humanit. 2022 Sep; 48(3):261-264.
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Spatial Metaphor Facilitates Word Learning. Child Dev. 2021 05; 92(3):e329-e342.
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Race, Metaphor, and Myth in Academic Medicine. Acad Psychiatry. 2021 Feb; 45(1):100-105.
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World Travel. Pediatrics. 2020 02; 145(2).
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Do Metaphors Move From Mind to Mouth? Evidence From a New System of Linguistic Metaphors for Time. Cogn Sci. 2018 11; 42(8):2950-2975.
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Language and the Construction of Time through Space. Trends Neurosci. 2018 10; 41(10):651-653.