Kitchen utensils are not infrequent medical metaphors. When some people look at other people’s facies, they see dishes – the dishes used for dining. From as early as the 1950s faces like dishes were already in the medical literature: “The nasomaxillary epithelial inlay for dish face deformity. Converse JM, Jeffreys FE. J Oral Surg (Chic), 1951 9(3):183-7.” […]
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Kitchen utensils as medical metaphors
Little fork – Fourchette In medicine, it’s not only food and drink that are used as analogies. Kitchen utensils also are part of the banquet – an example on this improbable blog was the tumbler test. Other kitchen ware includes: Fourchette – little fork (very popular post) Acetabulum – bowl Dinner-fork deformity Spoon-shaped nails BONUS. […]