Anatomy
Cardiovascular System
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Digestive System
Abdominal Organs
Place the abdominal organs in their correct locations.
Dissection Images & Videos
Anatomy Guy
Includes dissection prep and dissection review videos for the back & spine, thorax, upper limb, lower limb, abdomen, pelvis, and head & neck. Also includes a blood histology review and some videos for imaging, clinical, and surgical subspecialties topics.
Ithaca College Gross Anatomy Joints – labeled dissection images for joints
Laboratory dissections practice practical – Human Anatomy Online: An Interactive Tutorial and Reference
Choose an area of the body on the right to see quizzes for cadaveric images of the head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, back, osteology, upper extremity, and lower extremity. Click on “table of contents” at the top of the screen, choose a section, and then click on “laboratory dissection procedure” to see cadaveric images in which you can click on items for them to be pointed out in the image.
LUMEN Dissector – videos
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources – videos (click on “More Features” and then “Dissection videos”)
General Anatomy Resources
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
Within each dissection section of this University of Michigan Web site are dissection videos, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, practice quizzes, practice quizzes, review items, and lecture videos. The website also includes sections for radiology images, surface anatomy, and surgical videos.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Interactive Neuroanatomy Atlas
Within each section of this atlas from Columbia University are numerous images with listings of contents on which you can click an item to see it highlighted in the image. Click on “select lab here” at the top of the screen to choose one of the following sections: surface anatomy, internal structure, vasculature, somatic sensory system, sensory cranial nerves, visual system, auditory system, descending motor pathways, cerebellum, basal ganglia, vestibular and oculomotor systems, hypothalmus, limbic system, clinical case images, atlas – myelin stained sections, atlas – surface anatomy, and magnetic resonance images.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, trigeminal system (pain/temp), trigeminal system (touch), visceral sensation and taste, visual system, vestibular system, auditory system, corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tract, vestibulospinal tract, spinocerebellar tract, corticopontocerebellar tract, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, olfactory system, Circle of Papez, and limbic system.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Radiologic Anatomy
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Click “skip intro.” Click “review normal” for an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and instructions on how to interpret a chest x-ray. Click “go to first case” to view 10 cases of common abnormalities. Within the cases, you can click on an icon to view a normal x-ray.
Introduction to Radiology (Includes Chest Radiology)
This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.
LUMEN Cross-Sectional Tutorial
Includes MRI, CT, and images for cross-sections of the following regions: head and neck, upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and lower limb. Includes male and female thorax and pelvis cross-sections. Note from Shannon King: in cross section # 8 in the lower limb section, the answer to #1 should be tibialis anterior instead of extensor digitorum.
LUMEN Radiological Anatomy
Includes plain film, CT, and MRI images. Click on the image for anatomical labels.
Radiopaedia.org
Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Renal System
Interactive Kidney Illustration
Includes simplistic illustrations and descriptions of anatomical components of the kidney.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Skull Anatomy Tutorial
Includes interactive images for four basic views of the skull: one anterior, one lateral, and two inferior.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.