What this is

The atlas is a teaching collection of microscope slides with the words that explain them. The front page holds the two halves: the tissues of general histology, and the body systems whose organs each have a page of their own.

Every page is written in English and in French. Where a translation has not been made yet the English stands in its place, so a page is never half empty in one language.

How to read an organ page

A page opens on its picture and its table of contents, and then runs through its sections: the anatomy in short lines, then the slides that show it.

The marks on a slide are called by the words under it. A word in a caption that names an arrow, a circle or an asterisk is a button: click it and its marks appear on the picture, click it again and they go. Nothing else shows or hides them, so a slide is only ever as busy as the reader asked for.

The eye badge on a slide opens the note behind it, which says where the slide came from and who it belongs to. The slides library at the foot of a page gathers every slide of that organ in one list, each opening in the viewer it lives in.

At the very bottom there is a button that hands over the page's words as a PDF: the sections, their headings and their bullets, without the pictures. It is meant for reading away from a screen.

Who is writing it

The atlas is written, photographed and drawn by Dr. Nadir Miry.

Using it elsewhere

The atlas's own words and drawings are published under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, ShareAlike 4.0 licence: teach from them, copy them and build on them, for anything but commercial use, crediting the atlas and keeping what you build under the same licence.

The slides themselves belong to the collections credited beside them, not to the atlas. The Sources page lists those collections and says how to ask them.