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Caricatures
MeSH HeadingCaricatures
Tree NumberV01.185.500
Tree NumberV02.225
Annotationthis heading is used as a Publication Type. Used by catalogers only; caricatures as a subject are indexed under main heading CARICATURES AS TOPIC; Publication Type CARTOONS is also available
Scope NoteWorks 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)
History Note2008(1997)
Date of Entry19960621
Unique IDD019492


MeSH Tree Structures

 
Publication Components [V01]
   Book Illustrations [V01.185]
Caricatures [V01.185.500]
Drawings [V01.185.625]
Maps [V01.185.687]
Pictorial Works [V01.185.750]

 
Publication Formats [V02]
Abbreviations [V02.025]
Abstracts [V02.035]
Academic Dissertations [V02.050]
Account Books [V02.060]
Addresses [V02.070]  +
Advertisements [V02.100]
Almanacs [V02.110]
Anecdotes [V02.115]
Animation [V02.120]
Annual Reports [V02.130]
Aphorisms and Proverbs [V02.135]
Architectural Drawings [V02.140]
Atlases [V02.150]
Bibliography [V02.165]  +
Biography [V02.170]  +
Book Reviews [V02.180]
Broadsides [V02.200]
Caricatures [V02.225]
Cartoons [V02.235]
Catalogs [V02.240]  +
Charts [V02.245]
Chronology [V02.250]
Classical Article [V02.255]
Collected Works [V02.260]  +
Collections [V02.265]
Comment [V02.267]
Congresses [V02.270]  +
Corrected and Republished Article [V02.275]
Database [V02.300]
Diaries [V02.305]
Dictionary [V02.310]  +
Directory [V02.312]
Documentaries and Factual Films [V02.315]
Duplicate Publication [V02.320]
Editorial [V02.335]
Encyclopedias [V02.350]
Ephemera [V02.355]  +
Essays [V02.365]
Eulogies [V02.375]  +
Exhibitions [V02.415]
Fictional Works [V02.450]
Forms [V02.460]
Government Publications [V02.500]
Guidebooks [V02.510]
Guideline [V02.515]  +
Handbooks [V02.520]
Historical Article [V02.530]  +
Humor [V02.540]  +
Indexes [V02.550]
Instruction [V02.575]  +
Journal Article [V02.600]  +
Laboratory Manuals [V02.605]
Legal Cases [V02.610]
Legislation [V02.620]
Letter [V02.625]
Manuscripts [V02.630]
Meeting Abstracts [V02.650]
Monograph [V02.660]  +
News [V02.665]
Newspaper Article [V02.667]
Outlines [V02.670]
Overall [V02.672]  +
Patents [V02.675]
Periodical Index [V02.682]
Periodicals [V02.690]
Pharmacopoeias [V02.695]  +
Pictorial Works [V02.700]  +
Popular Works [V02.725]  +
Published Erratum [V02.737]
Resource Guides [V02.750]
Retracted Publication [V02.800]
Retraction of Publication [V02.825]
Review [V02.912]  +
Statistics [V02.956]
Tables [V02.978]
Technical Report [V02.989]
Unedited Footage [V02.994]
Union Lists [V02.997]
Unpublished Works [V02.998]

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