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Library : Useful Websites : Anatomy
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User comment It has only a few line drawings, but the yellow highlighting of key points and the questions at the end of chapters are useful.
Source: Dartmouth Medical School. Edited by Rand Swenson, DC, MD, PhD.
Availability: Free registration at MedEdPortal is required. ©2008, Ronan O'Rahilly.
Description: This online text is a revision of the text "Basic Human Anatomy" which was published in 1983 by W.B. Saunders. It is directed at the first year medical student taking their first human gross anatomy course.
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Source: Healthline.com, supported by extensive advertising at perimeter of Body Map.
Availability: Free
Description: Explore anatomy of 10 body areas and 40+ body systems at a very introductory level. Rotate anatomical images, and view with or without labels.
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Source: University of Texas at Austin. ©John Kappelman; see Creative Commons license.
Availability: Free
Description: Provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. The purpose of this site is to enable you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates and to gather information about them from our osteology database.
Thorax Virtual Anatomy Lab for Pre-Professional Health Sciences Students
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Source: Penprapa S. Klinkhachorn, DVM, PhD; West Virginia University School of Medicine.
Availability: Free registration at MedEdPortal is required. Available for non-profit use with attribution. See Creative Commons license.
Description: Tutorial. The thorax and its parts are dissected, photographed, and the images are digitized for computer-assisted instruction. They are constructed with Flash software for interactive learning. The use of drag and drop labels on high quality images provides the interactive learning.
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Source: Thieme
Availability: Free limited access. Upgraded access available by subscription or purchase of related texts.. See FAQ.
Description: A subset of 250 anatomy images from Thieme's Atlas of Anatomy Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine, and 50 questions from Obstetrics and Gynecology: The Essentials of Clinical Care.