Oxford LibGuides: Images for Medical Sciences: Images for Medical Sciences

Image Databases for Biomedical Sciences

MedPix
Produced by the US National Library of Medicine
Online database of 59,000 free open-access medical images related to 12,000 patient case scenarios and covering 9,000 topics.
The Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine the open image service of the US National Library of Medicine.
Wellcome Collection Images The Wellcome Library's collection of thousands of images from historical library materials and museum objects and contemporary digital photographs.
Public Health Image Library Photographs, illustrations and multimedia files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Big Picture Book of Viruses Viruses by Name, Structure/Genome, Host or Disease.
National Human Genome Research Institute photo gallery Images can be browsed by subject categories, keyword or year. The categories include scientists, animals, cells and organisms, technology, and illustrations.

Credit: Wellcome Collection CC BY 4.0

Wellcome Collection Images Artworks and photographs from the Wellcome Collection spanning several decades, originally collected between 1890 and 1936 by Sir Henry Wellcome and his agents across the globe.
History of Medical Sciences at the University of Oxford Led by the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford, on-going project bringing together artefacts on the History of Medical Sciences. Includes sections for images, objects, stories, and seminars recordings
History of Medicine at the University of Oxford The Medical Sciences Division web page providing timeline, illustrations, and history by department.
Images from the History of Medicine US National Library of Medicine 60,000 images and prints, hosted by the US National Library of Medicine.
Historical anatomies on the web A subset of the US National Library of Medicine Collections

Credit: left atrium from Gray's Anatomy 20th edition CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy contains over 1,200 engravings from the classic 1918 publication.
3D Atlas of Human Embryology Free 3D pdf images of organ systems in real human embryos created by students and embryologists from the Department of Anatomy, Embryology & Physiology of the Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Whole Brain Atlas From Harvard University.

Bridgeman Education Bridgeman Education is a subscription database of 300,000 images from museums, galleries and private collections worldwide, from pre-History to the present. Of interest to history of science & medicine. All images are cleared for educational use.

Inside Cancer Interactive guide to cancer biology from Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Biology Animation Library Common molecular processes such as PCR, sequencing and DNA restriction. Produced by the Dolan DNA Learning Center.

PIXNIO free image: doctor, heath care, hospital, medical care, medicine, ambulance,stethoscope

Google Images
Google image service.
Select filters Tools, Usage Rights, to view the image licence.

Credit:http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Bing Images
Microsoft Image search engine. Select Filter, Licence, to narrow the search to images that belong to the public domain or that are free to re-use.