Whoa. Turns out that medical dictionary I wrote about a few weeks ago has a visual counterpart now: Merriam-Webster’s online visual dictionary. It has a pretty extensive “human being” section as well as a number of other topics and disciplines. Plus, it has free audio pronunciations. This is great for junior medical students who don’t want to carry around a Netter’s all day (although Netter’s is admittedly far better and vastly more detailed, being an actual atlas) and likely for non-native-English speakers who are looking to learn English anatomical terminology.

(via Clinical Cases and Images)

There’s also netterimages.com, which provides most, if not all, Netter images on one concise site. Any body part is searchable, and there also the option of bringing up all associated images of any one body part on a given slide, which is handy. It also has labeled and unlabeled versions of each image, and PDF versions are available for most, although there’s a huge, if mostly unobtrusive, Elsevier watermark covering most of the images. (Would you expect anything less from Elsevier?) With a little time, you could probably compile a comprehensive, electronic version of Netter’s that doesn’t require internet access. Best of all, this is free! (Don’t bother registering; just begin searching.)