Diagnostic Utility of Food Terminology: Culinary Clues for the Astute Diagnostician

Diagnostic Utility of Food Terminology: Culinary Clues for the Astute Diagnostician

Physicians use food to describe the body: Analogies add flavor, provide a lingua franca for description, and offer a mnemonic. Presenting medicine in food descriptors makes a boundless field easier to digest. Here, Mark et al present a selection of food terms pertaining to physical diagnosis.

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of medicine 2015-09, Vol.128 (9), p.933-935
Hauptverfasser: Mark, Nicholas M., MD, Lessing, Juan N., MD, Buckley, Sarah A., MD, Tierney, Lawrence M., MD
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Disease
Food
Humans
Internal Medicine
Physical Examination
Physicians
Terminology as Topic
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Zusammenfassung:Physicians use food to describe the body: Analogies add flavor, provide a lingua franca for description, and offer a mnemonic. Presenting medicine in food descriptors makes a boundless field easier to digest. Here, Mark et al present a selection of food terms pertaining to physical diagnosis.
ISSN:0002-9343
1555-7162
DOI:10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.03.018