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The body and its connections to the spine

Body

Reference body

The BodyParts3D male body: the whole skeleton, muscles, vessels and organs, with every connection to the spine drawn.

Spinal level

Pick a cord segment to see everything it connects to, or a vertebra for its joints, muscles and vessels.

Cord segments

Vertebrae

Layers

Skin

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Skeleton

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Vertebrae and discs

Spinal cord (schematic)

Muscles

Arteries

Veins

Organs

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Brain and cranial nerves

View

Direction

Detail

How the spine connects to the body

Pick a connection, a spinal level on the left, or any part of the model. Each connection quotes its source; the lines are schematic.

Bones and joints

Muscles that move the spine or hang from it

Nerves to muscles and skin

Autonomic nerves to organs

Blood supply and drainage

Robotic Spine Universe shows template and schematic anatomy and simplified models for learning. It holds no patient data and collects no health data. It is not for diagnosis, prognosis or treatment planning.

A free, non-commercial showcase. Content CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; code MIT. Every dataset, licence and attribution is listed on Methods. Corrections: Suggest a correction · Changelog

Quoted text from OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e (Betts et al.), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e/pages/1-introduction. 3D anatomy from BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International, and the HuBMAP Human Reference Atlas (CC BY 4.0).

How the spine connects to the body

Pick a connection, a spinal level on the left, or any part of the model. Each connection quotes its source; the lines are schematic.