Altoona Hospital's Family Practice program has a list of medical analogies to help explain disease concepts to patients if they are having difficulty understanding. Analogies tell a kind of story, explaining a disease in terms of another subject that is more familiar, for instance comparing the risks of hypertension to pressure in a pipe, that often isn't noticed until the pipe bursts.
For other analogies check out http://www.scienceanalogies.info/webanalogylinks.html
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