Credits and licences

Every note, image and 3D model on Anatomy Interface comes from an openly licensed source. Each one shows its own credit where it appears: its title, its author, a link to the exact source page and a link to its licence. This page lists every source the same way, grouped by type.

To report a wrong or missing credit, use the Report a mistake link at the bottom of this page.

3D models

Other models inside Z-Anatomy (the known gap)

The Z-Anatomy Readme lists other models it draws on, but doesn't record which parts of the dataset come from which:

• "Cranial Nerves and Foramina" by the University of Dundee, CAHID (produced by Sophia Lappe; its page says it is based on BodyParts3D), CC BY 4.0 as stated in the Z-Anatomy Readme (the model's own page states no licence today). Some cranial nerves may come from it, so every page that shows a cranial nerve credits it: the homepage and the nervous system, eye and ear, head and neck, thorax and abdomen pages.
• "Brainder" and "White matter" (University of Washington): licence not stated. Some brain parts may come from them; BodyParts3D, which is openly licensed, also has the cerebral gyri and white matter.
• "Anatomy of the Inner Ear", University of Dundee, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (non-commercial), and "Kidney" by Lissie Cowley, CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial). To be safe, the parts that could come from these were replaced or removed: the renal pelvis (replaced with the Human Reference Atlas), the cochlea and vestibule (replaced with IE-Map), and the malleus, incus, stapes and eardrum (removed). The kidneys themselves match BodyParts3D and stay.

Notes on the 3D parts

Short excerpts, copied word for word. Each note on the site shows the same credit as its line below.

• Wikipedia, through the Z-Anatomy definitions: "Article" by Wikipedia contributors, via the Z-Anatomy definitions, CC BY-SA 3.0 (as the Z-Anatomy Readme states).
• Wikipedia article leads fetched directly (8 to 12 Nov 2026): "Article" by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Matching a part to its article used Wikidata (CC0); only Wikidata and FMA ID numbers are kept, no FMA text.

The authors of each Wikipedia article are listed in its history (the "View history" tab of each article).

Skin page overview

Short descriptions copied word for word from Wikipedia (listed above under CC BY-SA 4.0) and from the National Cancer Institute's SEER Training Modules:

• "SEER Training Modules: anatomy" by National Cancer Institute, Public domain (US government work)
• "SEER Training Modules: layers" by National Cancer Institute, Public domain (US government work)

What goes wrong

Short excerpts copied from US government health websites. Each is a US federal government work, so it is in the public domain; the licence link is each publisher's own reuse statement. MedlinePlus text: "Courtesy of MedlinePlus from the National Library of Medicine". NEI text: "Courtesy: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NEI/NIH)". NCI text: credit the National Cancer Institute.

Images and diagrams

Every image on the Imaging, Histology and Diagrams tabs, with its title, author, source and licence. Images were resized and re-encoded for the web; any other change is noted.

Code and fonts

Share image

The picture shown when a link to this site is shared (share.png) is a render of the site's own Z-Anatomy model, so it is also under CC BY-SA 4.0 ("Z-Anatomy - The libre 3D atlas of anatomy" by Gauthier Kervyn and Marcin Zielinski; BodyParts3D, DBCLS).

Last built 2026-11-13.