Skeletal System

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Human Bones Chart - Front View Rear View
Excellent diagram of the skeletal system. Reproduced from The McMillan Visual Dictionary, McMillan Publishing Company, 1992. Published by Public Action, Inc., a news and news analysis service.

AMA Atlas of the Human Body - Skeleton - Side View
Copyright 1995-2002 American Medical Association.
(very interesting site, but please note that there ARE pop-up ads)

e-Skeltons Project
The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database.

The Virtual Body
Interactive 3-D presentation of human anatomy and physiology. The Virtual Body Copyright HCA 2002. Includes three sections on bones: bones narrated, build a skeleton, and zoom in- where you can get more information about a specific bone by choosing its name from a list or by clicking on its location on virtual skeleton.

Human Anatomy Online - InnerBody.com
The place for fun, interactive and educational views of the human body. Click on skeletal system for information about bones. (There are pop-up ads.)

Gray's Anatomy Online
Excellent, but technical, medical resource with drawings and engravings of the human body. Includes details on embryology, bones, veins, joints, muscles, the nervous system, and all the organs of the body. To find information about and illustrations of bones, look in the Osteology section.(very reliable information, but please note that there ARE pop-up ads.)

Welcome to the Bone Box
Mostly shows diagrams of individual bones, but has excellent views of the skull. Loyola University Medical Education Network. Written by Thackery Gray, Professor, Dept. Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

The following sites contain diagrams of the human skeleton where you identify the bones:

KLB Science Department Interactives - The Human Skeleton
Use the words from each list to label the bones on the diagram. Katharine Lady Berkeley's School (KLB School), Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

WebAnatomy Human Skeleton
Think you know your skeleton? Take these quizzes. Click and hold on the answer space to see the possible answers for each bone identification. Then select the correct answer and release. Answer all questions and then hit the "Score Test" button at the bottom. Written by Murray Jensen, General College, University of Minnesota.

See also Human Body Links

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updated 2-11-08