Skeletal Landmarks and Bones
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.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
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.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What does the distal carpal tier lock directly into?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Skeletal Landmarks and Bones takes you
Move beyond basic bone names to pinpoint the exact carpals, tarsals, cranial bones, and palpable surface landmarks of the human skeleton.
- 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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