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Copyright: Please check copyright statements on each site before using any images. Many of the sites below allow the use of their material for educational or non-commercial use as long as the source is acknowledged.

Title Description Access Level
Anatomia Collection A collection featuring approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy from the University of Toronto Library. Free online
ASH Image Bank From the American Society of Hematology. Free online
Audubon's Birds of America Hosted at the University of Pittsburgh. Free online
Cells Alive! An interactive website about cell biology, microbiology, immunology, and microscopy. Consists of film and computer-enhanced images of cells, bacteria, and viruses for education and medical research. A stock video library is also available. Free online
Clinical Growth Charts Growth charts from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, for infants and children from birth to 20 years. Charts include head circumference, stature, weight, and body mass index. Most charts are available in English, French, and Spanish. Free online
DermAtlas Provides access to thousands of dermatology images. Images can be searched by diagnosis, disease category, body site, pigmentation, image contributor, patient age, image name, and/or keywords. Images can be freely used for educational purposes. Free online
Dermatology Image Bank   Free online
Dermnet Contains over 9000 images of skin disease. It is an educational resource for medical professionals. Dermnet is designed for rapid access so that a number of images can be viewed simultaneously. Free online
Digital Commonwealth Portal to the cultural heritage held in museums, historical societies, colleges, libraries and other cultural repositories in Massachusetts. You can search or browse the digital collections of member institutions for manuscripts, images, and documents. Free online
eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base eMedicine contains frequently updated, evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on over 7,000 diseases and disorders. It also hosts over 30,000 medical images and other multimedia content. Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users
Google™ Image Search “The most comprehensive image search on the web.” Free online
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™ General reference source from Scholastic Library Publishing. Derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images. Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users
Hardin MD Medical Pictures / Disease Pictures Links to free pictures, organized by disease, from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa. Free online
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) A digital library of over 20,000 images that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality for health sciences educators and learners. Free registration is required. Free online
Health on the Net Foundation Media Gallery A repository of over 6800 medical images and videos, organized by MeSH categories and terms. Images can be used freely as long as a copyright notice and link to the website are provided. Free online
Human Brain Atlas, The   Free online
Images from the History of Medicine Access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of NLM's History of Medicine Division. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media. Free online
images.MD Online encyclopedia of over 50,000 medical images. UMMS users can also register to create their own image libraries. Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users
Internet Atlas of Histology More than 1000 labeled images of histological specimens, with descriptions, practice labs, and quizzes. Free online
MedPix™ Provided by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. All public content is peer-reviewed. Some content is copyrighted and may not be copied or distributed without the author's permission. Free online
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases   Free online
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files. Many images are copyright protected. Free online
R2 Library Access over 100 electronic textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health. Users can save, organize, and export over 68,000 images from all available R2 Library resources. The My Images feature gives users easy access to often-used images. Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users
Visible Human Project®, The Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies, from the National Library of Medicine. Free online
Whole Brain Atlas, The An information resource for central nervous system imaging that integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images. Free online