difference between spinal cord and column
Answers. Best Answer: The spinal cord is the thick cable of nervous tissue attached the brain.The vertebral column is the stack of bones (vertebrae) that protect it. This picture http://www.daviddarling.info/images/spin... and this one http://www.jyi.org/articleimages/539/ori... show both. Source(s): Yaybob Â· 8 years ago.