Rüdiger Anatomie

A241 Foot skeleton with below-knee stump

Natural cast, with below-knee stump, movable.

Product data:

- 25 x 21 x 9 cm
- 400 g.

A201 Hanging Skeleton

Like the A200, but with a gallows-style stand. This eliminates the pin protruding from the sacrum. The skeleton can be removed and can also be seated for demonstration purposes. Incl. stand approx. 190 cm high, 12 kg.

All bones of the skeleton are 100% moulded from a real human skeleton. With this original, we paid attention not only to ideal bone structures but also to certain anatomical special features (e.g. an impacted wisdom tooth in the mandible or a malposition of the coccyx).

All details and fine structures of each individual human bone are reproduced exactly. Anatomically correct and absolutely true to nature!

The skeleton shows all of the usual 206 to 214 bones of a normal adult. All 24 individual vertebrae, all 12 ribs on each side of the body, all 26 bones per foot and all 27 bones per hand and per side of the body are shown individually and carefully assembled.

Of course, all skeletons are equipped with individual patellae and with a hyoid bone.

The joints of the arms and legs are designed so that all natural movements can be replicated. For example, the crossed and parallel positions of the radius and ulna when rotating the wrist can be clearly demonstrated. Using special sliding-joint hinges (see photo) for attaching the arms and legs to the torso, sliding movements within the shoulder and hip joints are also possible. The arms and legs are removable.

The skull of our A200 is the hallmark of our skeletons! No other manufacturer equips its skeletons with such a high-quality skull! It is removable and can be disassembled into four parts: the mandible is removable. A bone flap in the mandible allows views of the tooth root, cancellous bone, nerve canal and an impacted wisdom tooth. Most of the teeth of a normal adult can be removed individually from the jaw and reinserted using a special adhesive. The skullcap is removable to provide a view of the fully developed base of the skull. All nerve canals in the skull base are opened.

The skeleton is supplied with a mobile 5-leg stand and a dust cover. Height incl. stand: 180 cm, width: 40 cm, stand diameter: 60 cm, weight incl. stand: 11 kg.

The manufacturing process

Maximum detail fidelity of the individual bones is achieved through elaborate artisan manufacturing. From the master mould to the finished skeleton – with us, everything is still made in-house – here in Germany. In our workshop, a single A200 standard skeleton is produced by hand from around 500 individual parts, including approx. 200 bones, 24 intervertebral discs and 31 individual teeth, in more than 10 working hours. All bone parts are first cast, then hand-finished, polished and finally carefully assembled.

This elaborate manufacturing process has a direct impact on the quality, workmanship and precision of detail of the entire model. That is why our skeletons are hardly distinguishable from real ones.

The material

The skeleton is made from a particularly strong, unbreakable-in-normal-use, anatomical special plastic. Like all our supplied products, this is manufactured in Germany by a German company. Only in this way can we meet not only EU requirements but also our own high quality standards.

No other manufacturer worldwide succeeds in producing a skeleton from such hard plastic as Rüdiger-Anatomie. As a result, the skeleton remains dimensionally stable and colourfast even after many years. Another advantage of the extraordinary strength of the Rüdiger-Anatomie bone material is the low proportion of chemical plasticisers in the plastic. Because it contains hardly any plasticisers, no plasticisers can be released into the environment. Odour formation or environmental contamination by toxic substances due to outgassing of the plastic – by no means unknown in models from the Far East – does not occur with Rüdiger-Anatomie.

The material colour

Rüdiger-Anatomie deliberately uses so-called “light ivory” as the plastic colour. Compared with pure white, this has the advantage that important anatomical details such as structures, fissures and foramina stand out better because they are not overpowered by the white.

Product data:

Height incl. stand approx. 180 cm
Skeleton without stand approx. 170 cm
Skull circumference approx. 51 cm
Shoulder width approx. 180 cm
Ribcage depth approx. 38–40 cm
Pelvic width approx. 28 cm
Pelvic depth approx. 14 cm
Arm length incl. hand approx. 76 cm
Hand skeleton length approx. 19 cm
Leg length incl. foot approx. 97 cm
Foot skeleton length approx. 25 cm
Stand diameter: 60 cm
Weight incl. stand: 11 kg