Symbolic proportion is when you use another item to explain what something is to someone. For example, you might tell someone an old Nintendo game looked like an 8-track tape.
Mineral oil is used to treat constipation. It is known as a lubricant laxative. It works by keeping water in the stool and intestines. This helps to soften the stool and also makes it easier for stool to pass through the intestines.
Noun. 1. mineral oil-a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener). oil-a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.1  Facebook.. (Minerals) Brit any oil of mineral origin, esp petroleum. 2. US and Canadian a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): liquid paraffin.