Finding Images

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is a series of anatomy lessons on video presented by Robert Acland. Dr. Acland is a professor of surgery in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The series uses un-embalmed human specimens to illustrate anatomical structures.

The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.

ClinicalKey is a clinical resource designed to provide fast, clinically-relevant answers and contains millions of images.

Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Image gallery includes photographs, maps, plans, illustrations, objects, and artwork.

This unique collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Image gallery includes advertisements during that time period.

An archive representing the RCP's role in contemporary medical advances.

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference and teaching tool that is widely accessible to physicians and hematology students around the world.

Over 1,000 endoscopic images. Users may browse categories include esophagus, stomach, colon, and more. Images are relatively small.

Includes over 1000 labeled histological features and accompanying functional descriptions. All images are accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine.

A collection of stereoscopic anatomy images from the Lane Library at Stanford. Images are detailed line drawings based on three-dimensional photographic images of human anatomy using innovations in dissection pioneered by Dr. Bassett.

Michigan State University online atlases of the brains of humans, sheep, dolphins, and more. Search for brain images by animal category.

The largest dermatology information service available on the internet. It offers elaborate image atlases (DOIA and PeDOIA) complete with diagnoses and differential diagnoses, case reports and additional information on almost all skin diseases. Images are associated with many diagnoses.

The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. Special collections in HIM include Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia, the Bookplates, the Four Season and the Stewart Album.

The ECG Learning Center also includes diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities. Use of ECG Learning Center images is governed by a Creative Commons Copyright which allows rather liberal non-profit use.

Images from the first US heart transplant in 1967.

Illustrations from Henry Gray's 1918 work Anatomy of the Human Body.

Atlas of the human brain from Harvard Medicine. Browse for a variety of images by normal brain or brain disease type.

HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. From the University of Utah.

The WebPath® educational resource contains over 2700 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. Search features are not available.

A collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to produce and make available over the internet a three-dimensional image reference of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. View photos, animations, and MRI images of embryos by selecting an embryo representing one of the Carnegie stages.

Images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education and Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute.

The National Eye Institute's (NEI) repository for images, photos, and videos. Can be search by condition, anatomy, diagnostics, age group, and others.

Hosted on Flickr, the NIH Collections include everything from portraits of staff to infographics and lab research images.

Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's free online resource of biomedical books and videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The collections include nearly 68,000 still images, over 200 videos, and text.

Open-i is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored project designed to "provide next generation information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as PubMed Central. It is unique in its ability to index both the text and images in the articles." The initial launch is with 600,000 images, with plans to scale in the millions over time.

Over 33,600 pathology images from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Launched in 2003 by Dr. Dharam Ramnani, this site initially focused on urologic pathology and was subsequently expanded to include other organ systems. Web Pathology offers a visual survey of surgical pathology with emphasis on high-quality images. Each image is accompanied by a comment on pertinent clinical and pathologic features.

Developed by the Wellcome Library, one of the world's major resources for medical history, Wellcome Images mainly focuses on images related to medicine and biomedical science. However, there are numerous disciplinary images and galleries, and the over 100,000 freely available high resolution images makes this collection worth looking at.