Free Anatomy Websites

Sunil Mathew Malayil

www.innerbody.com

Free resource Ad revenue model , contains essentials of

anatomy and physiology , not too vague nor too detailed

adequate

Systemic physiology and regional anatomy is the

approach .
anatomy pictures are shown and when you move the
cursor the parts or to the name both lights up with notes
to right side .

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy/

By Giesel School of Medicine department of anatomy ;

It covers most topics in a interactive way using
cadaveric , radiological and clinical pictures , there is a
balance of resources as to which topic is best cover in
which way to clinically help the future doctor ..
Limited resources coverage , and many structures can't
be found in the library

www.anatomylab.com

The site gives you many pictures of cadavers to identify

the marked structures , most of the topics are covered
by practical exams
Teaching resources are paid for .
The is also a puzzle section where you can play puzzle
game to arrange cadaver body pictures , although
limited pictures are there , its fun to do it ..
There is an iphone app , to work in another device it
need flash player , so it might not work on new android
devices

www.g2conline.org

3D of the brain , also covers diseases , rare to find such

resource especially brain in so much detail
Need flash player to access it in browser , In mobiles
you need app to access the site .

www.anatomyguy.com

All of it is by aid of lecture videos ,

Good , time consuming

Cadaveric study is the main attraction having it has

whole range of topics from dissection techniques , to
introduction to the cadaver and also covers blade safety
, the videos include pathology neuroanatomy and
histology also ..
Now comes the best part also very unique , It also
include a lot of videos from many clinical speciality
which correlates to anatomy , each of the lecture class
is taken by clinicians in those speciality ,
The one main problem is that you may need patience as
videos are slower than youtube streams ,

Tips on searching videos :

Videos are alphabetically listed in home site , or EVMS
homepage can get scrollable set of videos where you
can search for a video ....."

http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~rwillson/dentgross/ This site given head and neck anatomy , One place
headneck/index2.htm
where many are confused also having different
approach , you may take this as a guide for head and
neck

http://vhp.med.umich.edu/movies2.html

Visible human project started off as a big project , it also

start off a chain of events leading to many advances in
human anatomy understanding , the library of pictures
and videos and 3D is still available , and useful ..
You can get many videos and also 3D browser from
visible human project , but due to its old interface it hard
to work modern browsers and OS

http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/
toc.htm

It gives you cadaveric dissection in parts and each part

is arranged very nicely in hierarchy , so that accessing it
is not at all a problem , even each step in the way is
given for dissection with references ..
Best if used with cadaveric dissection ,

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/
HISTHTML/HISTO.html

Its famous within USMLE students for its path questions

, this also have anatomy and histology
Majority of the anatomy topics are covered in clinical
orientation and MCQs are clinically oriented , anatomy
is covered mostly in cross sections , histology is almost
covered here fully ..

www.wesnorman.com
adequate

Regional anatomy study on cadaver or graphical

diagrams put to covers important topics of general
anatomy
It also had practical exams to orient yourself

www.mananatomy.com
adequate

gross anatomy ( regional ) and physiology systemic

approach , only covers very important topics , Also
contains histology

www.getbodysmart.com
adequate

It has quiz like interface with graphical pictures which

represent anatomy and physiology ,
Most animations are to the point and teaches just
enough .
Interface is good and speed is good and have good
chances of working in even slow connections as the site
is not graphic intensive ;
it also contains links to other famous anatomy sites ;

anatomyatlases.org

Covers different sorts of anatomy , it has gross anatomy

, cross sectional , its basically can be called an
encyclopaedia of anatomy
Not just that it also include the atlas of human anatomy
variation , atlas of microscopic anatomy , case study
approach and a video series named bone box ;

www.anatomyzone.com
Adequate ,

3D Atlas for making learning more interactive , but most

are labelled " coming soon " , so may have to wait up for
few months to integrate with biodigital human 3D atlas..
3D Video tutorials of very comprehensive covering most
topics of anatomy , and you can access it by mobile ,
They are integrated with social websites like facebook
and twitter also .,
Over 700 questions on most topics of anatomy and
physiology

http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Give you access to greys anatomy , classic edition 1918

for free , you can have a travel back to past by
reading ,for whoever interested ..

www.imaios.com

Partly Free

Image library , mobile apps

Provides free image overviews , some images are paid

while some others are free or partially free , for anatomy
access you need to pay up 79 dollar each year
Mostly clinically oriented pictures are given
Search bar is very helpful in searching the images , can
be called as an image library
It also provides app to explore there image library both
in iOS and android , not just that they also provide a
range of apps which is related to many fields of clinical
and anatomical study , if you want to pass time then
they also have a game called anatomy ninja " have fun
in an anatomy way " ...

http://reference.medscape.com/guide/anatomy

Medscape runs another clinical reference web-portal

which is one among the best clinical reference , this
pictures of anatomy is in one place , every picture have
good clinical relevance and essential for clinics , there
may not be any other place other than this you can get
more clinically relevant material
The content actually contains a little extra detail about
the clinical viewpoint , MBBS students may find it too
advanced , but its definitely a go for teachers and
students who like to learn clinics with anatomy ..

human.biodigital.com
3D atlas

Free for individuals whereas most other competitors are

having paid version , premium version on biodigital
human costs money
Rotate , point and know structures and classification
Only 3d anatomy interactive atlas which is free , it has a
iOS and Android app for mobile viewing , although not
detailed this might be the best you can get in a
interactive atlas of full human body

www.instantanatomy.net

Have classifications and all topics arranged in hierarchal

model with pictures in the end , Good for organising
though of a new student , its pictures are easier to
remember also due to simplicity ..
It also have PDFs on some topics which you can
download
Lacks cadaveric pictures

www.medicalook.com

It contains both anatomy and physiology explained in an

adequate way as to counter most clinical basics
Good resource for a clinician to brush up his basics

www.healthline.com

limited resources , fit for some one who need the basic
information of anatomy , does cover main structures and
this is not geared to anatomy teaching but to public
education of the very basic
The best part is although the animations of the clinical
procedures , which is golden

http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/tour.html

Another visible body project

The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000

digitized sections of the human body.
This introduction and tour uses images and animals
from the project to teach key concepts in human
anatomy.

http://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/skeletal/ They cover both anatomy and physiology , the anatomy

although not enough for references its adequate for
growth.html
undergraduates
The source of information is reliable ,

www.med.harvard.edu/aanlib

The Whole Brain Atlas , by 3D , MRI and , other

imaging
This also includes other contents such as diseases of
the nervous system , physiology of the brain , this is the
most detailed brain atlas compared to others , whoever
is interested in neuroscience will like this

http://depts.washington.edu/msatlas/

Musculoskeletal Atlas has more than 80 images of

upper and lower extremities.
Well arranged .

www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html

Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases

3D running on javascript slower to load than other sites ,
but have other information
3D models of many organs are given and is totally free ,