Advanced Flexible 180cm Tall Skeleton Model with Ligaments & Painted Muscles

Features and Specifications

This advanced, adult, life-sized skeleton with ligaments and painted muscles is designed to be used by medical professionals, teachers and students of anatomy - beginner to advanced.

• This life-size, articulated skeleton is ideal for the teaching of human anatomy.
• Its spine is flexible, and once flexed, will remain in any position
• This can be used to show incorrect posture or other conditions.
• Right side of skeleton is hand-painted and numbered to show muscle origins in red and insertions in blue.
• There are over 100 muscles numbered and named in a description booklet.
• Left side of skeleton shows ligaments.
• The limbs and pelvis are removable for closer study.
• The skeleton's bones look and feel real, so it is perfect for doctors, artists, students, physios, chiros, etc.
• It can be drilled through or dressed up with very little hassle.
• Features nerve branches, the vertebral artery and a herniated lumbar disc.
• The skull includes a movable jaw, cut calvarium, suture lines and 3 removable lower teeth (three extra teeth are also added in case the first 3 are misplaced).
• Made of washable, high-quality PVC and comes with a cover to shield from dust.
• It can be mounted on the 40cm wide base and stand that comes in the package.

SKULL:

Composed of 22 pieces of bones with serrated sutures lines are marked out. Calvaria is transversely cut to show the interior structures of the skull. Mandible is movable, 3 lower teeth-incisor, cuspid and molar are removable.

VERTEBRAL COLUMN:

Composed of 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar vertebrae, a piece of sacrum, a piece of coccyx and 23 intervertebral discs. The vertebral column shows four curvatures, i.e. cervical and lumbar curvatures, being convex forward, thoracic and sacral curvature, being convex backward.

BONE THORAX:

Composed of 24 ribs, a piece of costal cartilages and a piece of sternum. It includes 7 pairs (1-7) of true ribs, 3 pairs (8-10) of false ribs and 2 pairs (11-12) of floating ribs.

BONY PELVIS:

Composed of sacrum, coccyx and two pieces of hip bones.

BONES OF UPPER EXTREMITIES:

Composed of 64 pieces of separable bones. The pectoral girdle (scapula and clavicle) are fixed on the bony thorax, the remaining part of the upper extremities can be taken down. The main joints (shoulder, elbow and wrist) are movable.

BONES OF LOWER EXTREMITIES:

Composed of 62 pieces of separable bones. The pelvic girdle (hip bone) is fixed to construct the bony pelvis. The remaining parts of the lower extremities can be taken down. The main joints (hip, knee and ankle) are movable.

It contains nerve branches, comes with natural movement, which limbs can be flexed into nearly any natural position and fully articulated.