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Art

Medical Definition:
Guide Notes:	works of art, the field of fine arts, artistic production; art as therapy = ART THERAPY

Art Categories.

	Caricatures - 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 Collections Cataloguing, 2d ed)
	Engraving and Engravings
	Medicine in Art
	Numismatics - Study of coins, tokens, medals, etc. However, it usually refers to medals pertaining to the history of medicine.
	Paintings
	Philately - Study of stamps or postal markings. It usually refers to the design and commemorative aspects of the stamp.
	Portraits - Graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. (From Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II, p540, 1995)
	Sculpture

Art Medical Definitions and Terms

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