Images: Science & Medicine Collections

Bio-image Search enables discovery of biomedical images from aggregated sources that you can use, i.e., images in the Public Domain or with Creative Commons licenses.

MedPix® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.

Visual images provided by the National Cancer Institute. Each image or illustration included in the NCI Visuals Online Web site is labeled either "Public Domain" (free to use) or "Copyright Protected" (restricted, obtain permission before use).

Access to approximately 70,000 digital images from the History of Medicine Division including portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Images provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Images are either "Public Domain" (free use) or "Copyright Protected" (restricted, obtain permission before use)

Gross and microscopic images of pathology specimens by Ed Uthman, a pathologist in Houston, TX. CC-BY license

This site provides high resolution images from the National Library of Medicine's anatomical atlas collection with titles spanning from the 14th through the 18th centuries. All of the scanned works are in the public domain. The National Library of Medicine does not charge for the use of its images or require requests for permission. Published images should include the credit line "Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine."

Provides images of human and non-human primate skeletons. Reproduction or recreation is permitted under not for profit circumstances and enterprises with proper attribution to eSkeletons.org.