a: thymus ~
b: a schoolhouse
What:
"The thymus is like a schoolhouse," Markert says simply, offering the analogy she uses with her patients. "When you open the doors, the students -- in the form of immature white blood cells -- are the children who run in. Eventually they graduate to be T-cells."
Useful?
Writer: Louise Markert
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Where:
Date: Mar 2 2014 1:07 PM
# 5167 Critique Analogy