Random Analogies

Many Hours/week It Is

a: Dialysis ~
b: a part time job

What: "Dialysis is like a part time job," said Dr. John Hix, medical director at the new clinic...Many patients spend a minimum of nine hours attached to dialysis machines each week. This can be especially burdensome when the patient must travel to a hospital for treatment."

Useful?
Writer: Dr. John Hix
LCC:
Where:
Date: Jul 30 2013 4:39 PM



a: Esophagus ~
b: a stretchy pipe

What:

"You swallow by choice, but once the swallow begins, the digestion process becomes involuntary and moves along under the control of the nerves. The esophagus is like a stretchy pipe that's about 10 inches (or 25 centimeters) long. It moves food from the back of your throat to your stomach."


Useful?
Writer: Angie Best-Boss with David Edelberg, M.D.
LCC:
Where:
Date: Dec 29 2013 1:11 PM



a: ATP synthase ~
b: cylinder

What:

"Using chemical methods Paul Boyer proposed that ATP synthase is like a cylinder with alternating alpha and beta subunits. An asymmetrical gamma subunit in the middle of the cylinder causes changes in the structure of the beta subunits when it rotates (100 r.p.s.). He termed these structures open (betaO), loose (betaL) and tight (betaT)."


Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Dec 18 2014 11:29 AM


Credit Card

a: Credit Card ~
b: Money Pit

What:

A seemingly bottomless pit of money for which you only have to refill with a handful of money each month. The bank takes a slightly smaller handful for its fee each month. If you keep to the banks plan you then you will have to put back over 100 times what you took!


Useful?
Writer: LifestylePlanner
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 27 2015 2:32 AM



Green Venn Diagram

Browse Analogies by Library of
Congress Catagory: