Anatomy
You will have to learn many tedious things...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all - W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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Epiphany By Anatomy: How Seeing a Dead Body Helped Me Understand Life
Wanna see the anatomy lab?” he asked, beaming, as we finished our walk through campus.
I was visiting a friend who had just finished up his first year of medical school at Brown University, and he had spent the better part of the last few months laboring daily in the lab. Figuring a brief stop in would parallel the time I showed him my D.C. office, I said sure. A quick glance around a sterile basement lab, “So this is where you work, huh,” and we’d be off to lunch.
We walked down the stairs of the concrete block building, briskly making our way through a maze…
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Hanson's Anatomy
Lovers of science and art welcome. Welcome all doctors, nurses, PAs, therapists, students and those seeking to understand the beautiful complexity of the human body.
The Science of Anatomy Is Undergoing a Major Revival
Only two decades ago, when I was starting my PhD studies at the University of California in Berkeley, there was talk about the death of anatomy as a research subject. That hasn’t happened. Instead the science of anatomy has undergone a renaissance lately, sparking renewed interest not just among researchers but also the public.
Anatomy and Physiology: 5 Medical Myths Demythified!
Modern medicine is pretty advanced—we have vaccines against diseases that have plagued humanity for centuries and we can see into cells. I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane and visit some ideas that might seem zany to us in 2012, and some ideas that create traditions we still follow! Some of these ideas persisted for centuries.
Anatomy for Everybody
Most people learn the basics of human anatomy as children. Asked who taught them this information, many would acknowledge their parents, science teachers, and physicians. But what anyone who has ever flipped through a biology textbook or gazed at an anatomy diagram in a doctor’s office might not realize is that there’s another group that deserves credit for helping them see beneath their own skin: medical illustrators.
Anatomy: Art and Science
The dissection of human cadavers for medical purposes has a long history. Herophilos and Erasistratos, Greek physicians working in Alexandria in the 200s BCE, seem to have been the first to systematically dissect human bodies. Dissecting humans was forbidden in the Roman Empire, so people such as Galen used the bodies of apes.
Learning Anatomy in a Digital Age
Medical students at Columbia University are using digital technology to breathe new life into a process hundreds of years old: dissecting a cadaver from head to toe.
Learning Empathy From the Dead
The first-year dissection is often an experience that teaches medical students to emotionally detach from their patients. By forcing future doctors to learn about the lives of their cadavers, some medical schools are trying to reverse the effect.
Mummy Head, Europe’s Oldest-Known Preserved Human Dissection, To Go On Display
In the second century, an ethnically Greek Roman named Galen became doctor to the gladiators. His glimpses into the human body via these warriors’ wounds, combined with much more systematic dissections of animals, became the basis of Islamic and European medicine for centuries.
The Secret Lives of Cadavers
How lifeless bodies become life-saving tools.
Epiphany By Anatomy: How Seeing a Dead Body Helped Me Understand Life
I’m unsure if I had a religious experience in that lab, but those 20 minutes were nothing short of epiphanic. Though trite, seeing dismembered organs made me understand quite powerfully that individually, human beings are greater than the sum of their parts. Why that is remains a mystery, a mystery that neither science nor faith alone can answer.
25 Photos That Reveal Just How Amazing The Human Body Can Be
As a culture, we can be so wrapped up in technological advances, it’s easy to forget that one essential, most incredible machine: The human body. Our bodies maintain the most basic functions while also attempting the most daring feats. They protect and heal themselves, have an amazing capacity for learning and even facilitate the most athletic of moves. And they deserve to be celebrated.
Anatomy.TV
Published by Primal Pictures Ltd, anatomy.tv is our online version of our 3D anatomy software. anatomy.tv is used in hundreds of Universities and Colleges world-wide for many different courses.
Pocket Anatomy
Our medically accurate, male and female anatomical content is packed with over 100,000 words of learning content as well as 1000s of award-winning medical animations, so now you really do have the entire human body in the palm of your hand.
Street Anatomy
Showcasing human anatomy in art, design + pop culture.
Anatomage
The Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced anatomy visualization system for anatomy education and is being adopted by many of the world’s leading medical schools and institutions.
Anatomical Reference for the Artist
I’m Lydia, and I started this blog hoping to help other artists, hobby or professional, to broaden their understanding of both human and animal anatomy.
Anatomy and Physiology Resources
Animations, movies & interactive tutorial links.
Anatomy Arcade
Anatomy Arcade makes basic human anatomy come ALIVE through awesome free flash games, interactives and videos. Anatomy Arcade is perfect for the novice teenager in the classroom, right through to students and professionals of health care looking for a fun way to revise.
Anatomy Corner
The main focus of anatomycorner.com is to organize and compile anatomy resources, mainly in the form of image banks.
Anatomy Drill and Practice
Comprehensive collection of quizzes to test your knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
Anatomy Guy
The site is free to everyone who can type in the web address. However, some schools don’t allow streaming from places like Vimeo and You Tube to protect their bandwidth. However, some schools will make exceptions to specific web sites. Ask your library or IT department if they will make an exception to an educational site like Anatomy Guy.
Anatomy Notes
Random musings of an anatomist turned medical student. The focus is human anatomy: anatomy myths, weird anatomy, anatomy in the news, clinical pearls, etc.
BioDigital
Our interactive 3D map of the human body makes it easy to visualize data, anatomy, disease and treatments in any web or mobile application.
Dream Anatomy
Dream Anatomy is no longer on display at the National Library of Medicine. Dream Anatomy (October 9, 2002 to July 31, 2003) was mainly drawn from the National Library of Medicine's extensive historical collections. The Library's resources for historical scholarship in medicine and related sciences are among the richest of any institution in the world. Collected over many years, the material in the History of Medicine Division provides researchers with sources both rare in availability and exhaustive in scope.
GetBodySmart
An Online Exploration of Human Anatomy and Physiology.
Human Anatomy
Extensive resource.
Human Anatomy Online
An interactive tutorial and reference.
Instant Anatomy
Aiding learning in human anatomy.
Morbid Anatomy
Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.
Muscle&Motion
Muscle&Motion was officially founded in 2001 under the name of MultifitOnLine. Its aim was, and is, to enhance an individual’s understanding of the muscular mechanics involved in any particular movement of the human body; thereby, improving results, reducing risk of injury, and providing an overall greater awareness of muscles in motion.
Netter Images
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. The collection consists of thousands of illustrations covering all areas of medicine and health science, including basic science, diseases, disorders and treatments.
Nucleus Medical Media
Nucleus Medical Media is the leading author, publisher and licensor of medical animations and medical illustrations on the Internet. The overarching mission of Nucleus is to help people by improving health literacy.
Primal Pictures
Primal Pictures, the world’s most medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic rendering of human anatomy.
TeachMeAnatomy
Containing over 700 vibrant, full-colour images, TeachMeAnatomy is a comprehensive anatomy encyclopedia presented in a visually-appealing, easy-to-read format. Created by a team of doctors and medical students, each topic combines anatomical knowledge with high-yield clinical pearls, seamlessly bridging the gap between scholarly learning and improved patient care.
The Anatomy Lesson
These Web Pages are dedicated to all the students with whom I had the good fortune of teaching at Georgetown University. They are meant to be studied by the person who is just interested in learning a little about human anatomy, as a review of previous anatomy courses or for anyone else who might find the lessons helpful.
Visible Body
We invent apps that advance the way students learn and healthcare professionals practice.
ZygoteBody
Learning anatomy has never been so easy. In true 3D, you can literally see any combination of anatomical features! View any muscle and bone combination to easily learn origins and insertions. View any joint, organ or system to learn about how your body works and cut away layers of anatomy to see the human body from a completely unique perspective!
American Association of Anatomists
The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) serves as the gateway for conveying the relevance of biological structure as it relates to function from molecules to organisms, and the role of anatomy in team-based, interdisciplinary science, healthcare, and education.
American Association of Clinical Anatomists
The American Association of Clinical Anatomists is the international home for the advancement of clinical anatomy knowledge and anatomical services through education, research and scholarship.
Exploratorium
These archived Webcasts explore body imaging technologies, modern and ancient, including a CT scan of an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
The mission of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) is to promote excellence in the teaching of anatomy and physiology.
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