Fair Use of Digitised Diseases

Diseases is a born digital resource of pathological type specimens made up of more than 1600 photo-realistic 3D digital models of human remains, with associated descriptions, radiographs, CT data, videos and clinical synopses. We ask that users are respectful in their use of this digital content, mindful that these are direct facsimiles of the bones of real people. Users are free to access content for educational purposes under the Creative Commons license attribution CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, meaning that this resource is available for non-commercial use, with no derivatives (please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Where shown, these models can be downloaded for viewing on different digital platforms such as tablet devices with the help of freely available applications such as MeshLab.

In making this resource available free-to-all, we would ask that you respect the wishes of our partners, associate partners and their trustees. is a born digital resource and we do not permit 3D prints of these digital models. Any inappropriate use of material, such as the creation of artwork or installations from this resource will be taken very seriously. The Royal College of Surgeons in particular is subject to a license from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) and is obliged to inform the HTA of any misuse of images involving modern human remains from their collections.

is freely available for educational use. However, we ask that all content (images, descriptions, clinical synopses and all 3D content) are clearly attributed to unless otherwise detailed and that it is cited correctly each time that it is used.

Each model has a master record number (mrn), separate description and unique url as identifier. As such, users must note the url and reference the source as:



The mrn number for downloaded file is in the url and is also given in the readme file which is downloaded alongside the model.