Research Guides: Finding & Using Digital Images: Medical/Anatomy Collections

Important

It is the student/researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when using, publishing or otherwise distributing materials.

Be sure to investigate the copyright restrictions at each website and to always cite any images you include in your own work.

Note: Even Copyright Free Images must be properly cited and credited.

For information about how to cite images, please visit our Citation Guide:

Citing Images in APA

Citing Images in MLA

Library Databases

Gale Interactive Human Anatomy
Alternate Name(s): Interactive Human Anatomy Human Anatomy
Human anatomy comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models

3D Images

Davis3D (Mcgill University)
(Creative Commons License Canada)
Anatronica | Interactive 3D Human Anatomy
BioDigital Human
"The BioDigital Human is a virtual 3D body in an interactive Web-based platform. Requires free registration" (from website).
Zygote Body
3D anatomical atlas Google Body™

Public Domain Medical/Anatomy Image Websites

Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray
"The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn" (from website).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
(US Government)
JHSPH OpenCourseWare
"OCW makes JHSPH course materials used in the teaching of actual courses freely and openly available on the Web. You may share and adapt the materials on OCW under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license" (from website).
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
"The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations" (from website).
National Institutes of Health NGIMS Image Gallery
(US Government)
The Netter Collection
"The Netter Collection is the most comprehensive collection of hand-painted medical illustrations available with a 50+ year history and a brand identity recognized and accepted as the standard by anyone who has ever received some form of healthcare training" (from website).
Stanford School of Medicine Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
(Creative Commons License US)
The Visible Human Project
"The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies" (from website).