title: [Bestiaries in clinical dermatology].
abstract: Metaphors have always played a role in the medical tradition and in dermatology too. Beyond their initially playful aspect, metaphors offer a way of rapidly identifying a lesion and of linking it to one or more diseases. They also play a role in the education of medical students and residents by making it easier to memorise different diseases. Herein we discuss "animal" metaphors.
authors.affiliation: University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital: dermatology and allergology, Meilahdentie 2, PO Box 160, 00029 Hus, Finlande. Electronic address: nicolas.kluger@hus.fi.
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authors.lastname: Kluger
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Animal; Dermatologie; Dermatology; Education; Formation; Metaphor; Métaphore; Semiology; Sémiologie; Training; Éducation