A fully flexible life size vertebral column consisting of the occipital plate, cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, coccyx, complete pelvis with ariculated, removable femur heads. Additional features include representations of the vertebral arteries, spinal nerve branches and a prolapsed L3-L4 intervertebral disc. The sacral crest and coccyx are removable to show the sacral section of the spinal cord and associated nerve branches.