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Images (7 titles)

  • AccessMedicne Image Index –Image collection from McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine, an online resource that provides access to more than 50 medical titles, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and diagnostic tools.
  • AccessScience Image Galleries –13 Image galleries and explanation of scientific phenomena plus downloadable PowerPoint versions of each gallery are available.
  • AnaQuest –The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project has produced high resolution (4096 x 2048 x 24 bits) cryosectional color images of human anatomy. AnatQuest, is a database for this image dataset as well as for 3D rendered images of anatomic objects created from cryosectional images (cross-sections or slices)
  • DOIA: Dermatology Online Atlas –This site is a compendium of hundreds of browsable and searchable photographs of skin conditions. Image groups may be accompanied by synonyms for the condition, Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) terms, and a definition. Each image includes an assessment of its quality for teaching and may be accompanied by brief descriptive information.
  • Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) –This database provides access to almost 70,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, posters, postcards, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
  • SMART Imagebase: Scientific & Medical ART - CANCELLED as of 8-31-09 –http://ebsco.smartimagebase.com/smartindex.php?PostData=0(previous trial URL just in case) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&site=scimed&return=y or Collection of 15,500+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics. Cancelled as of Aug 31, 2009
  • UVa Image Collections –• The Marketing and Communication Department has made the Most Requested Image Collection available for general use within the Health System. ITC’s UVA Images is a collection of images of the University grounds. The images provided in these pages by Information Technology and Communication are for non-commercial use by members of the University of Virginia community only.