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  SCIENCE: BIOLOGY - HUMAN BODY SYSTEMS - Accurate as of June 2006
Information on the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, muscular, nervous, reproductive, and skeletal systems. General anatomy also discussed.

 
 

GENERAL ... CIRCULATORY ... DIGESTIVE ... ENDOCRINE ... MUSCULAR ... NERVOUS ... REPRODUCTIVE ... SKELETAL

GENERAL

Gray’s Anatomy
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
Online version of the book

A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/
Tour of nearly 9,000 digitized sections of the body using animations and 3-dimensional images

Inner Learning Online
http://www.innerbody.com
Explore human anatomy topics with animations, graphics, and links

Marching through the visible man
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/vm/
Complete, anatomically detailed 3-dimensional views of the male human body

Three-Dimensional Medical Reconstruction
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/medical/
Movie clips showing 3-dimensional views of the human anatomy

The Visual Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Complete, anatomically correct, 3-dimensional representations of the human body

Web Anatomy Home Page
http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/jensen/1135/webanatomy/
Collection of anatomical drawings of various organs and organ systems that are labeled with numbered pointers. Users try to choose the correct term for each label from a list

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CIRCULATORY

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/
Check risk factors, information on circulatory conditions, and information on the heart

The Circulatory System
http://www.globalclassroom.org/hemo.html
Overview of the human circulatory system, with labeled diagrams

The Heart: An online Exploration
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
Information about the human heart

The Heart and the Circulatory system
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/heart_background.html
History of the circulation system, discussion of the anatomy of the heart, circulatory problems

HeartInformation.org
http://www.heartinfo.com/
Information to those interested in learning about lowering risk factors for heart disease

The Human Body’s Circulatory System Theme page
http://www.cln.org/themes/circulatory.html
Links to all kinds of information on the circulatory system

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DIGESTIVE

Introductory Anatomy: Digestive System
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy8.html
Describes parts and processes of digestion

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ENDOCRINE

Endocrine System (Hormones) Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endocrinesystemhormones.html
Links to all kinds of topics about the endocrine system

Pathophysiology of the endocrine system
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/
Describes parts and processes of the endocrine system

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MUSCULAR

The Human body’s Muscular System theme page
http://www.cln.org/themes/muscular.html
Annotated links to web resources on the muscular system

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NERVOUS

Anatomy of the Brain
http://www.neurosurgery.org/health/patient/answers.asp?DisorderID=51
Fact sheet on the brain and all its functions

Anatomy of the Spine
http://www.neurosurgery.org/health/patient/answers.asp?DisorderID=44
Fact sheet on the spine and its functions

Explore the brain and spinal cord
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
Basics, higher functions, nervous and sensory systems, neurons

Nervous System and Senses
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/nervous.htm
Information about the senses and how they are controlled by the nervous system

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the world
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/
Information on the human senses

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REPRODUCTIVE

Human Reproductive Disorders
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0860698.html
Brief descriptions of male and female systems and the disorders that may affect them

The Human Reproductive system
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/webwise/spinneret/human2/reprsy.htm
all kinds of information

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SKELETAL

E-skeletons
http://www.eskeletons.org/
View bones of human and animal anatomies from all angles


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