Bones of the Face and Body
Discover the names, shapes, and hidden engineering of the human skeleton. Learn to identify the bones across your face, limbs, and core, and see how they protect your organs and power everyday movement.
Like Duolingo, but for Bones of the Face and Body. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Finding Your Upper Landmarks, Weight Bearing and Locomotion, The Protective Core, and The Living Framework. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Bones of the Face and Body
- The mandible forms the lower jaw and chin
- Every other bone in the skull is locked in place except the mandible
- Chewing and speaking rely solely on the mandible hinged against the skull
- The zygomatic bone forms the high arch of the cheekbone
- The zygomatic bones form the outer and lower rim of the eye socket
- They connect the front of the face to the side of the skull
- The maxillae are two fused bones forming the central midface
- The maxillae secure the upper teeth and make up the floor of the nasal cavity
- The upper jaw does not move independently from the skull
- The frontal bone shapes the smooth curve of the forehead
- The thickened rim above the eyes acts like a built-in helmet visor protecting the eyeballs from top-down impacts
- It forms the upper roof of each eye socket
- Hollow sinus cavities keep the head light enough for neck muscles to hold up easily
- Air pockets act as echo chambers that give voice tone and resonance
- Solid bone throughout the face would make the front of the skull uncomfortably heavy
- The clavicle props the shoulder blade and arm out away from the rib cage like a rigid strut
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Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Which bone is the only one in your whole skull that can actually move around?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Bones of the Face and Body takes you
- 1
Finding Your Upper Landmarks
- The Bones Beneath Your Face
- The Shoulder Girdle and Arms
- 2
Weight Bearing and Locomotion
- The Pelvic Girdle and Legs
- Hands and Feet: Grasping and Ground Strike
- 3
The Protective Core
- The Cranium and Deep Facial Skeleton
- The Spine and Rib Cage
- 4
The Living Framework
- Bone Architecture, Remodeling, and Healing
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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