can anyone help me find any directions on how to make a spinal cord model out of clay?

Answer 1

This sounds like an exceedingly ambitious project. Are you planning to model the spinal cord or the spine? If it is the spine, I would suggest that doing one disk would be sufficient.

Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "spine disk structure" to get these possible sources:

http://www.chirogeek.com/000_Disc_Anatomy.htm
http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1286.html

Under "spine disk anatomy" I found:

http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1224.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDvbAvBLQuM
http://www.doereport.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=17834&ExhibitKeywordsRaw=&TL=1&A=

Under "vertebra anatomy" I found:

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject/20
http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=1978
http://www.bartleby.com/107/23.html
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http://www.doereport.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=1988&ExhibitKeywordsRaw=&TL=4294967295&A=
http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article2245.html
http://www.back.com/anatomy-lumbar.html

Rather than doing any one paticular disk, you might want to try making a generic disk to generally represent all of the vertabrae.

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search. Also see http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/.

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.