Caricatures

"Caricatures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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Works portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)

Descriptor ID

D019492

MeSH Number(s)

V01.185.500

V02.225

Concept/Terms

Caricatures

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Caricatures".

Publication Characteristics [V]
Publication Components [V01]
Book Illustrations [V01.185]
Caricatures [V01.185.500]
Publication Formats [V02]
Caricatures [V02.225]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Caricatures".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Caricatures".

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