12th August 2025 | By Spectrum Impex

Understanding the Human Body: A Guide to Skeleton Models for Learning Anatomy

Skeleton models are hard structure for learning about human body. It is made up of the bones which gives shape to the body and its shape helps student to understand in a better way (such as relationship between the figure of the human body and the skeleton). Skeleton has 206 bones in the body and if body doesn’t have skeleton then the body would be flat.  The skeleton protects the internal organs like brain, heart and lung. The important parts 

of a human body are the head, the spine, the chest, the abdomen, the arms and the hands and the legs.

They have three dimensionals layout of the assembly.

An endoskeleton is a hardened internal skeleton. An exoskeleton is a hard external framework. A hydroskeleton is a kind of skeleton that is composed of soft tissue filled with an incompressible fluid or gel-like substance.

There are several types of Skeleton models such as Life Size skeleton, Disarticulated Skeleton, Mini and Medium Size Skeleton and they have Individual Bone or Joint Models

 Life Size skeleton height dimension is 180 cm. The life Size replica of the human skeleton is painted in red and blue to brief out the points of muscle. Arms and legs are flexible. Three part of skull is removable. Skeleton has free rolling wheel  which can be moved anywhere as and when required.

Disarticulated Skeleton refers to several types of bones which are not connected at their natural joints. All bones are separated from each other.  Disarticulated Skeleton encourages student to learn the various bones of an Adult Human.

 Mini and Medium Sized Skeletons are useful for teaching basic human anatomy. They are suitable for younger students and it is less expensive than life size skeleton.

Joint Models comes in many shapes, sizes and types throughout the body. Joints plays a role in enabling various types of movement. Joint are classified by the tissue connecting bones (fibrous, cartilaginous or synovial)

Fibrous Joints bones are connected by fibrous tissue, offering no movement e.g., skull

Cartilaginous Joints bones are connected with cartilage allowing for slight movement e.g., vertebral discs.

Synovial Joint bones are movable joints, e.g., hip, knee, shoulder