Anatomy and Physiology Resources
Check out this list of open resources you can use in your anatomy and physiology courses! You’ll find a variety of illustrated figures, public domain photos, textbooks, quizzes and more!
- Figshare has collections of illustrations. Try a search for "anatomy illustrations": https://figshare.com/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Welcome Collections: https://wellcomecollection.org/works?wellcomeImagesUrl=/
- Interactive diagrams and text about human anatomy, some are in 3D with the ability to zoom and rotate: http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
- Interactive textbook, including quizzes: http://www.getbodysmart.com/
- An open anatomy textbook available online for free, or as print-on-demand. Instructor supplements are available via site registration: https://openstax.org/details/anatomy-and-physiology
- An open anatomy and physiology textbook in HTML format: https://www.boundless.com/blog/physiology/
- Interactive textbook with embedded self-quizzes. If students use a free login, it will save their progress: https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/guest/join.do?section=anatomy
- Open encyclopedias and atlases of anatomy. Many have detailed diagrams: http://www.anatomyatlases.org/
- An extensive set of videos of a human corpse dissection. The videos must be downloaded in .mov format: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/vghd/
- Set of 3D models with narrations. Access requires a free login: http://www.anatomyzone.com/
- Anatomy review games: http://www.anatomyarcade.com/
- Games and exercises: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/
- A collection of diagrams: http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/APlab/Table-of-Contents.html
- An open textbook on human osteology: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/4/
- A light-up diagram of a human male skeleton, as well as skeletons of other primates for comparison: http://eskeletons.org/boneviewer/nid/12537/region/skull/bone/cranium
- Extremely in-depth coverage of the human eye: http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/index.html
- Detailed interactive diagram of the larynx: https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/hs/medical/anatomy_resources/anatomy/larynx/
