Anatomical Sciences Resources

Last update March 2012 by Mick Draper  

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Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources

• Anatomy tv Click on link, then on the Resources tab, and then on the Anatomy.tv icon or link. The online graphics and text includes several layers, rotation, etc. Interactive human anatomy to view multiple layers. Includes quizzes.
• Australian Medicines Handbook Online access to information on drugs approved for use in Australia
• BestPractice Latest research, evidence, and expert opinion on a range of common conditions
• Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. University of Adelaide users only.
• MDConsult Searches clinical ebooks, ejournals, review journals, a drugs database, news, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and cases on a wide area of clinic medicine from specific tabs or from a single search engine.
• Stat!Ref 11 online med texts. Click on Table of contents to see the books available.
• UpToDate Provides information on diagnosis, treatment, prognosis etc on a wide range of medical conditions. Evidence based.

Mick's Tutorial on how to find stuff in the Barr Smith Library This is written for first year med students. Others can read the tutorial but don't have access to the questions.
References (citations) in assignments

Sources for finding  JOURNAL ARTICLES

University of Adelaide Library Information sources for finding journal articles

MEDLINE

• MedlinePlus A consumer database that includes a list of more than 600 of medical topics to search, drug info, a medical dictionary, and a medical encyclopaedia. From U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• NLM Gateway Provides simultaneous searching in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
• PubMed A fast, free version of Medline with links to some full text journals.
  • Uni of Adelaide basic PubMed tutorial including importing citations to EndNote.
  • Uni of Adelaide advanced PubMed tutorial with dental examples
  • PubMed Tutorial from National Library of Medicine. How to use PubMed efficiently

Journal Title Abbreviations

• U.S. National Library of Medicine Journals Database Enter an abbreviated title and get the full title for a journal

PubMed Searches on The University of Adelaide Discipline of Anatomical Sciences Research Areas
Click here

General Anatomy Sites

• an@tomy tv 
  Interactive Human Anatomy Uni of Adelaide community only. Click on link, then on the Resources tab, and then on the Anatomy.tv icon or link. The online graphics and text includes several layers, rotation, etc.
• Anatomy atlases
  Anatomy information for med students. Includes several online books with images, text and sound.
• Anatomy interactive Human Gross Anatomy
  A compilation of anatomy links
• bioanatomy 
  A compilation of sites, including teaching material, products, publications and images.
• Get Body Smart.com An animated site showing anatomy of various systems, tutorials, and quizzes. From Scott Sheffield
• Human anatomy online Graphics and some text on the body systems From MyHealthScore.com
• Primate Info Net 
  From Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center University of Wisconsin - Madison
• The "Virtual" - Medical Center Anatomy & Histology Center

 

Animal Dentition

Click here for compilation of sites that covers fish to mammals

Blood Brain Barrier

• Blood Brain Barrier  
  Definitions, short essays and links to other sites from Answers.com 

Cell Biology

UNSW Cell Biology 
A beginning set of notes on cell biology from Mark Hill Uni of NSW

UNSW Embryology
More notes for beginners by Mark Hill of Uni of NSW

Fingerprints and Dermatoglyphics

• The History of Fingerprints 
Site is associated with US Army Criminal Investigation Command
• Dactyloscopy The Science of Fingerprinting 
From The Thin Blue Line Information Section, NSW Police
 

Forensic Anthropology

Osteology

• Osteology Chapter from book by Henry Grey (1918) Anatomy of the human body
  

Human Evolution

• Becoming Human Includes news, documentaries, bibliographies and other resources.From Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
• Human Evolution 
A compilation of sites from the Google search engine
• Modern Human Variation 
An online tutorial by Dennis O'Neil, Ph.D. Palomar College San Marcos, California

Sizing

• Caesar Project Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource 
• 3-D Landmarks 
  Landmarks for Automatic landmark recognition
• Electronic 3-D Scans 
  How scanners are used to produce 3-D images
• Univariate Measurements 
  36 Landmarks used to measure humans 

SizeUK

• SizeUK home page 
UK National Sizing Survey includes an email for buying survey results.
• Scanner Benchmarking for SizeUK 
Article on the methodology of the 3D whole-body acquisition systems used.

Palaeopathology

Paleopathology Research Laboratory Virginia Commonwealth University Has case studies

Animal palaeopathology

• The Palæopathology of Horse Husbandry Information on a project by Dr M.A. Levine of Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle
  
  

Reproductive Biology

• FishBase 

An excellent database with many species. Includes info and refs on reproduction. From The WorldFish Center and other collaborators
• Sea Urchin Embryology 
High school or early undergrad level teaching material From Stanford University
• UNSW Embryology 
Lots of notes on embryology. Mostly human but other animals included. By Mark Hill Uni of NSW
• Welcome to the Marsupials 
Info on this group including a little on reproduction from The Natural History Collections of the Uni of Edinburgh

Publication Aids

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences Instructions from a long list of health sciences journals. From University of Toledo (USA)
• Publishing in the Life Sciences Covers selecting a journal, and manuscript preparation. From McGill University

Structural Cell Biology assignment seminar 2010
Notes on using PubMed

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