Anatomy & Physiology

Created and copyrighted by © J. Crimando Ph.D., GateWay Community College;Phoenix, AZ

The American Museum of Natural History (New York City) is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition.

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Dr. Valerie O'Loughlin is interested in the effectiveness of these animations as learning tools.
"WE NEED YOUR INPUT! Faculty, students, and laypeople are all requested to participate. Once the data is analyzed and collected, we hope to report our findings at several national meetings, and publish our results.

THANK YOU in advance! We hope that you will find the animations of use to you and your learning, just as your participation will help our study greatly. Please contact me if you have any questions."

Learning Objectives for this resource:
To learn microscopic anatomy of the tissues and organs of the human body.
To learn histological terms and concepts for the purpose of identification and precise communication.
To develop a systematic thinking process as a means to identify histological preparations correctly.
To understand the relationship between microscopic structure and function.
To understand the preparative procedures used in histology and how they affect the visual image.

WEHI.TV actively participates in a broad range of education and mainstream media projects, through its contribution of television-quality science animations, web movies and various spin-off 3D illustrations.

WEHI.TV provides all of its 3D animation sequences to external groups producing science programs for television and multimedia education. This objective is to raise public understanding and awareness through regular collaborations, while retaining quality control, ensuring the science is accurate and easily understood.

This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.

Some sample segmenst include causes of teeth chattering, sneezing and stomach "growls."