An interactive tool designed to help teach the muscles of facial expression.

From Artnatomy

ARTNATOMY/ARTNATOMIA is a Flash interactive english/spanish tool. It is intended to facilitate the teaching and learning of the anatomical and biomechanical foundation of facial expression morphology.

Author

Victoria Contreras Flores

mail@victoriacontreras.com

Features

• Two levels allow you to first understand the facial muscles and how they control the face, while the second level allows you to see which muscles are active in certain expressions such as anger, irony, rejection, pain, etc.
• Ability to control the transparency of the skull and muscle layers of the face
• Toggle between a line drawing of the face and a fully rendered sketch.  Level II also gives you examples of expressions in real photos of the face.

Limitations

• Some of the translations from Spanish to English make it difficult to follow descriptions at times
• Definitely not for beginners in anatomy
• Would be great if it also identified the bony landmarks on the skull to help follow the descriptions

From Modality:

Mosby’s iTerms Flash Cards for Medical Terminology, the premier study guide for mastering the prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and abbreviations used to build medical terms, is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. This application has more than 800 medical terminology flash cards containing word building examples and audio pronunciations allowing students to study and learn anywhere, anytime.

Zip through cards with the flick of a finger, pick a medical term, tap to “flip” it over, then listen to audio pronunciations to make sure you’ve gotten it right.

Author

Modality

Features

From Modality:

• 811 digital flash cards of medical prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and abbreviations
• Audio for all terms identifying correct pronunciation for each word part and term
• Word-building examples to provide extra skill sharpening, with definitions for each prefix, suffix, and combining form
• A variety of full-color illustrated examples to reinforce key terms and concepts
• Customizable study sets of cards
• Shuffle mode for quick study

Limitations

• A bit pricey, but well worth the convenience of being able to study medical terminology anywhere

From Anatomy Arcade:

Anatomy Arcade makes basic human anatomy come alive through awesome free Flash games and interactives. Finally, students can play Flash games in class and not get in trouble for it and teachers can run lessons that will engage students like never before. Games include:

• Whack-a-bone
• Poke-a-muscle
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Crosswords
• Word searches
• Match two

Author

Ben Crossett

Features

• Games are entertaining, easy to play, and challenging for anatomy students of all levels
• Crosswords and word searches are actually quite difficult
• Quick timing and increasing difficulty levels really put your anatomy knowledge to the test
• You’ll never have so much fun learning anatomy as you will playing these games!

Limitations

• Advertisements across the site and during the games are distracting but a necessary evil in order to allow the games to be online for free. It is highly recommended that teachers buy licenses to get the ad free versions of the games.

• Comprehensive anatomical word search engine.

example: abducent: Latin ab = from, and ducens = led, hence, moving
from, or effecting separation.

Author

Dr. M. A. (Toby) Arnold & Deborah Bryce

Features

• Well organized and comprehensive list of anatomical terms
• Breaks down each term into its Latin or Greek components
• Search box to quickly find the meaning of that anatomical part you’ve never even heard of before

Limitations

• Closely spaced lists of terms makes it difficult to read each definition