Take this list of sugical equipment as an example, how do people know what they are without the picture? Even if I find the meaning of it in My mother tongue and English, I still don’t know what they are. So Lochtuch is a cloth with a hole, I get it. But then I need the context or background to know, it refers to the cloth that docter put on their patient during a surgery.
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We had similar requests before but decided not to go with it. At the moment, that’s not in the plans.
Just out of curiousity. If you don’t even know what those are in your mother tongue, why bother learning those words in a foreign language. I have no idea what a Spreiferschere and a Kornzange are, too (well, a Schere and a Zange obviously 
), but I don’t consider this an issue as I am no surgeon.
Besides whatever reasons caused the LingQ team to not going with this I am opposed to this idea, too. LingQ can already be pretty laggy at times without the system loading images everytime I click on a word. Not to mention that people will probably upload images for all kind of words where those aren’t needed. Or they upload several images per word. The written definitions already contain tons of redundancies.
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