Short answer: The BIX-A1021 is a cervical model made up of the occipital bone and seven cervical vertebrae with a cervical vertebral artery, mounted on a plastic seat. The model groups the structures that a student must hold together in the neck: the base of the skull, the seven cervical vertebrae, the intervertebral discs and the artery that runs through the transverse foramina.
Key takeaways
| Item | Specification on the product page |
|---|---|
| Composition | The occipital bone and seven cervical vertebrae |
| Vascular detail | Cervical vertebral artery |
| Additional detail | Intervertebral disc and nerve, per the model description |
| Mount | Placed on a plastic seat |
| Price | Quoted on request |
The cervical spine is where anatomy becomes practice. It is the region a nurse immobilises after trauma, the region an anaesthetist manipulates to secure an airway, and the region where a misjudged movement can injure the spinal cord or the vertebral artery. Teaching it from a diagram of one vertebra misses the point, because nearly every important relationship in the neck is between structures.
The clinical test of that knowledge is well documented in the trauma literature. A systematic review of the Canadian C-spine rule and the NEXUS criteria examined how accurately clinicians can screen for clinically important cervical spine injury after blunt trauma [1] — a decision that depends on knowing the cervical anatomy well enough to reason about mechanism.
Training models carry part of that teaching load. Work on cadaver-based cervical spine training courses has shown that structured, hands-on instruction can bring participants to their intended learning outcomes [2], and the general evidence favours physical models for anatomy learning [3]. The A1021 is the classroom half of that pair: it builds the mental model that the cadaver course then applies.
Q1. What is the BIX-A1021?
It is a cervical model consisting of the occipital bone and the seven cervical vertebrae, including the cervical vertebral artery, used for neck anatomy teaching.
Q2. What does the model include?
The occipital bone, seven cervical vertebrae and the cervical vertebral artery, together with intervertebral disc and nerve detail as described for the model.
Q3. How is it mounted?
It is placed on a plastic seat.
Q4. Who is it for?
Nursing and medical students, anatomy and physiology courses, and clinical-skills teaching where the neck must be understood relationally.
Q5. Can it be used alongside trauma teaching?
Yes. It is a useful classroom companion for cervical-spine immobilisation and airway teaching, where the relevant relationships must be memorised before they are practised.
Q6. How do I get a price or a full structure list?
Email adanursing@adaanatomy.com with the model (BIX-A1021), the quantity you are considering and your destination port; our export team will reply with pricing, lead time and the labelled structure list.
Email adanursing@adaanatomy.com for the BIX-A1021 price list and shipping details. If your programme covers the spine more broadly, the same skeleton range includes lumbar, thoracic and full vertebral column models, so a spine-teaching set can be specified in one order.