Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
HFBoards has an incredibly toxic community, but it also has some pretty great parts as well (there's some very in-depth discussion on occasion, as well as some humorous threads). Still, the community (and awful moderators) makes me not want to stick around for the great bits.
Microscopic image of the external globus pallidus (lower left of image) and putamen (upper right of image). H&E-LFB stain. In primates, the dorsal pallidum, or globus pallidus, is divided into two parts by the medial medullary lamina.