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Tennis Courts in the Human Body: A Review of the Misleading Metaphor in Medical Literature
Medical literature is home to fancy descriptions, poetic metaphors, and ingenious comparisons. However, some comparisons can disguise the knowledge gap. Large surfaces in the human body, like the alveolar surface for gas exchange, villi for food absorption, and the endothelial lining of blood vessel...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35223255 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21474 |