Metaphor:DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR
Aliases | TREATING DISEASE IS WAGING WAR |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Composed/complex |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | War Roles:battlefield, enemy_attack, generals, army, enemy_combatants, weapons, war_strategies, civilians, victory, enemy_conquest, fighting, side1, side2
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Target Frame | Disease treatment Roles:disease, doctors, medical_professionals, diseased_cells, healthy_cells, body, treatment_strategies, cure, spread_of_disease, medical_tools_and_medicine
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Mappings:
diseased_cells | <= | enemy_combatants |
medical_professionals | <= | army |
doctors | <= | generals |
body | <= | battlefield |
medical_tools_and_medicines | <= | weapons |
treatment_strategy | <= | war_strategy |
applying_treatment | <= | fighting |
Related Metaphors:
Entailments:
Examples:
Example Text: | The doctors at the CDC led the way to victory against the flu epidemic. |
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Example Text: | The cancer patient fought a long, hard, battle, but she eventually succumbed to her disease. |
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Example Text: | A Triumph in the War Against Cancer |
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Provenance: | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html |
Example Text: | With nothing left in their leukemia-fighting arsenal, the doctors were down to Dilaudid, a derivative of morphine... |
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Provenance: | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html |
Graph of related metaphors:
digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Cancer treatment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cancer_treatment" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Disease treatment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Disease_treatment" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Disease" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Disease" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Treating a physical affliction" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Treating_a_physical_affliction" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS WAGING WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ADDRESSING_SOCIAL_PROBLEMS_IS_WAGING_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:DISEASE_TREATMENT_IS_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "has as transitive subpart 1" fontsize="8.0" color="purple" ]; n3 [label="CANCER TREATMENT IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:CANCER_TREATMENT_IS_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="War" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:War" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Physical competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Physical combat" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_combat" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
Example | English (The doctors at the CDC led the way to victory against the flu epidemic., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (The cancer patient fought a long, hard, battle, but she eventually succumbed to her disease., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (A Triumph in the War Against Cancer, ?, ?, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html, ?, ?, ?) + and English (With nothing left in their leukemia-fighting arsenal, the doctors were down to Dilaudid, a derivative of morphine..., ?, ?, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:War + |
Has target frame | Frame:Disease treatment + |
Mapping | diseased_cells (enemy_combatants, ?) +, medical_professionals (army, ?) +, doctors (generals, ?) +, body (battlefield, ?) +, medical_tools_and_medicines (weapons, ?) +, treatment_strategy (war_strategy, ?) + and applying_treatment (fighting, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | TREATING DISEASE IS WAGING WAR (?) + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:War + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Disease treatment + |
Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR#Is_example_of + |