Library Closure 8/10/10 8.30am-2pm

Both Trust Libraries will be closed due to a team meeting on the 8/10/10 from 8.30am-2pm.

Apologies for any inconvience, please email us if you have any queries or requests.

Out of hours access is available as usual.

Anatomy Sites

Content provided by Keith Knockels, University of Leicester

Subscription sites:

NetAnatomy
Images of radiographic, cross sectional and gross anatomy (gross anatomy is large
scale anatomy, which can be seen without a microscope). A sample of the material,
with details of how to subscribe, is available from the website.

Primal Pictures
A three dimensional model of human anatomy using data from scans. Animations
demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. The University of
Leicester has access to some Primal Pictures material through Ovid, but the site
gives details of all the available material, which includes things we do not have (like
resources aimed at speech and language pathologists and acupuncturists), and
material on CD. Anatomy.tv is, I think, another name for the online version of
Primal Pictures.

Visible Body
3D visualisation of human anatomy, views can be rotated and zoomed. We trialled
this after a student drew it to our attention and it needed a plugin to be downloaded.
Visible Body is now available in the UK through the STAT!Ref but I have no
experience of this directly.

Winking Skull
A study aid produced by the publisher Thieme. Access to everything (“Winking Skull
Pro”) needs a subscription, although 200 images are available free.

Free sites:

eSkeletons
From the University of Texas at Austin. View bones and data about them, for
humans and various other primates. You can also view a bone and compare it
between species.

GetBodySmart
Being developed by Scott Sheffield, a university teacher of anatomy, as an online
anatomy textbook. Still under development.

Gray’s Anatomy
Specifically the 20th edition of the book, published in 1918. The latest edition is the
40th edition and online access is possible if you buy the printed book. Other editions
may be available in Google Books but a search for “grays anatomy” also gives you
related books and editions in other languages. It also seems to reveal the TV series
“Grey’s Anatomy”, and as seems to be usual with Google Books, not everything is in
full text.

Human Anatomy Online: an interactive tutorial and reference
Courseware from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Each chapter of
this resource contains an overview of that part of the body, osteology, laboratory
dissection procedure, and a summary of anatomical terms encountered.

Instant Anatomy
Website maintained by Robert Whitaker, who teaches anatomy to medical students
at Cambridge and based on his diagrams and notes. There are also podcasts (which
may need purchasing) and a CD for purchase, as well as a related book.

LUMEN – Structure of the Human Body
LUMEN is the Loyola University Medical Education Network, based in Chicago. The
LUMEN site as a whole is awash with online learning materials but this particular
page gives links to anatomy resources, including the Bone Box (under “LUMEN
Learn ‘Em”) , a Master Muscle List, and a cross sectional anatomy tutorial, which
uses images from the Visible Human Project. These things all appear to be free to
use, but some other parts of the site need a login.

Visible Human Project
This NLM project aimed to create a complete set of 3D representations of the human
body. There is more information, including links to images, conference material and
other NLM initiatives at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.
There are some normal anatomy images at
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HISTHTML/ANATOMY/ANATOMY.html,
part of the Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, created by Edward
C. Klatt, MD, formerly of the University of Utah and now at the Mercer University
School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia. Some images are available through
LUMEN resources (see above).