Skeletal Landmarks and Bones
Move beyond basic bone names to pinpoint the exact carpals, tarsals, cranial bones, and palpable surface landmarks of the human skeleton.
Like Duolingo, but for Skeletal Landmarks and Bones. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Extremities' Puzzle Boxes and Cranial Bones and Palpable Contours. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Skeletal Landmarks and Bones
- The proximal carpal tier meets the forearm bones to form the wrist hinge.
- The distal carpal tier locks directly into the bases of metacarpals 1-5.
- The scaphoid sits laterally on the thumb side directly under the radial styloid.
- The lunate neighbors the scaphoid to share the primary radial articular facet.
- The triquetrum and superficial pisiform terminate the medial pinky side.
- The pisiform is a sesamoid bone embedded entirely within the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
- The pisiform rests atop the palmar facet of the triquetrum without entering the forearm joint.
- The trapezium sits directly under the first metacarpal to form the mobile thumb saddle.
- The trapezoid and large central capitate support the index and middle rays.
- The hamate anchors the fourth and fifth metacarpals at the medial distal edge.
- The hook of the hamate projects palmarward to form the medial carpal tunnel boundary.
- The tubercle of the trapezium projects palmarward to form the lateral boundary.
- The transverse carpal ligament bridges these bony projections to enclose the tunnel.
- The talus receives entire body weight from the crural mortise without muscle attachments
- The calcaneus projects posteriorly to provide leverage for plantarflexor muscles
- The boat-shaped navicular articulates proximally with the rounded talar head
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Tomo gives Skeletal Landmarks and Bones the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What does the distal carpal tier lock directly into?
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Where Skeletal Landmarks and Bones takes you
- 1
The Extremities' Puzzle Boxes
- Mapping the Eight Carpal Bones
- Differentiating the Seven Tarsal Bones
- 2
Cranial Bones and Palpable Contours
- Isolating the Deep Craniofacial Bones
- Locating Condyles, Processes, and Bony Landmarks
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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