How do I explore the 3D body?
Open the Anatomy Explorer, pick a layer such as bones or muscles, and tap a structure to learn its name, Latin term and what it does.
How do I explore the 3D body?
Who can do this: anyone signed in to the portal. The Anatomy Explorer is a learning tool for classes and for understanding your own care; it is not a diagnostic tool and it does not use your health records.
- Select Anatomy Explorer in the sidebar, then choose Male or Female with the Body switch. The female body shows the organs, reproductive anatomy, brain and body surface in detail; its arm muscles, most vessels and nerves are not modelled, and its skull, ribs, arms and feet are placeholder bones.
- Drag the Peel slider in the Layers panel to fade the body from the skin inward, or use each layer's own slider and eye button for Skin, Muscles, Tissue, Bones, Organs, Arteries, Veins and Nerves.
- Drag to turn the body, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap any structure.
- The panel shows the structure's name, its side, its Latin name and a short explanation of what it is, with the source of each.
- Select Isolate structure to look at it on its own, or Clear selection to go back.
Tips
- Press / to search by English or Latin name, for example stomach or gaster.
- Drag the Explode slider to lay out every piece of the body side by side.
- The camera menu at the top right switches views; the buttons beside it rotate the body or reset everything.
- Select Quiz to test yourself: name a highlighted structure, find a named one on the body, or match a description. Scores are not stored.
The male body is a reference model from BodyParts3D (© The Database Center for Life Science, CC BY 4.0); the female body is the Human Reference Atlas female v1.10 (HuBMAP, CC BY 4.0). Neither shows every human structure or variation.