NOAH'S ARKIVE (originally named The International Veterinary Pathology Slide Bank) was conceived in the early 1980's as a repository of slides contributed by individuals and institutions around the world.

More than 250 contributors from 13 countries around the world sent 2x2 slides for technical and medical screening. Each slide is identified by contributor, institution, species, system, tissue or organ and diagnosis or key words.

All of this information was entered into a computer database and cataloged for easy retrieval.  In 1986, the 3rd Edition was the first to become available on laser videodisk format.  Now in its 8th Edition, the slides were digitized into images for CD subsets: CLINICAL PATHOLOGY, CANINE, FELINE, EQUINE, PORCINE, RUMINANT and WHEAL (Wildlife, Human, Exotic Animals, Avian, Laboratory Animal).

The Arkive has grown to approximately 30,000 images of veterinary medicine including gross lesions, histopathology, normal histology, cytology and hematology, parasitology, poisonous plants, animals with/without clinical signs, schematics, radiographs, electron micrographs and techniques.

We would welcome you as a user or as a contributor. This is a non-profit endeavor and all monies are utilized to maintain NOAH'S ARKIVE.

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