Pictures and models have always been important teaching tools for learning about the human body. Today high-speed computers and sophisticated software are creating new ways of viewing the body. Requiring less visualization by the user, these images are changing how we think about and interpret the human body.

The images on this screen are head and neck pictures assembled from an electronic reference database called The Visible Human Project. Initiated and supported by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, the Project represents the complete three-dimensional anatomy of an adult male and an adult female cadaver.

Complete head 660KB file

Skull 1,235KB file

The Visible Human Project can be visited at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

The images on this screen were produced through a joint collaboration of HT Medical, Inc., the National Institute of Dental Research and the Smithsonian Institution.