Upper and Lower Limb Anatomy: Learn 100 Flashcards from the Glenoid Cavity to the Dorsalis Pedis
Deck OT1610 covers limb anatomy in 100 cards: bones, joints, muscles, nerves, arteries and 17 injuries. Which cards to study first, and what to add.
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OT1610 — "Medical Anatomy: Upper & Lower Limbs" is the third 100-card regional deck in the Flip It anatomy series, and a well-built one: real definitions, no duplicate pairs, a clean sweep from bone to joint to muscle to nerve to artery. The trap is the order it teaches them in.
Study this deck: Medical Anatomy: Upper & Lower Limbs
1 / 10Musculoskeletal system
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Eight representative cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Glenoid cavity | A shallow socket on the scapula that articulates with the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint |
| Carpal bones | Eight wrist bones in two rows: scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform / trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate |
| Rotator cuff | Supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis — four muscles stabilising the shoulder |
| Brachial plexus | A network of nerves from C5–T1 that innervates the upper limb |
| Acetabulum | A deep socket on the hip bone that articulates with the head of the femur |
| Sciatic nerve | The largest nerve in the body (L4–S3); divides into tibial and common fibular nerves |
| Common fibular nerve | Branch of the sciatic supplying anterior and lateral leg muscles; vulnerable at the fibular head |
| Anatomical snuffbox | Triangular depression on the lateral wrist; the radial artery and scaphoid lie beneath it |
Everything the deck covers
Clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius and ulna, metacarpals, phalanges; ilium, ischium, pubis, femur, patella, tibia, fibula, talus, calcaneus, navicular, cuboid, cuneiforms, metatarsals. Joints: shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, ankle, plus synovial fluid, bursae and menisci. Muscles: deltoid, biceps and triceps brachii, brachialis, flexor and extensor carpi radialis/ulnaris, flexor digitorum superficialis and profundus, iliopsoas, gluteus maximus/medius/minimus, quadriceps femoris, hamstrings, adductors, gastrocnemius, soleus, tibialis anterior. Nerves: median, ulnar, radial, femoral, tibial, lumbar and sacral plexuses. Arteries: axillary, brachial, radial, ulnar, femoral, popliteal, anterior and posterior tibial, dorsalis pedis. Then seventeen clinical cards: carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tear, tennis and golfer's elbow, hip fracture, ACL and MCL tears, meniscus tear, plantar fasciitis, Achilles rupture, sciatica, compartment syndrome, frozen shoulder, bursitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout.
Study the last ten cards first
Cards 90–97 define pronation, supination, dorsiflexion, plantarflexion, inversion, eversion, abduction and adduction. Every joint and muscle card from card 21 onward already uses that vocabulary — "allows flexion, extension, abduction and adduction of the hand" appears seventy cards before abduction is defined. Move those eight cards to the front of your queue and learn them on day one. The same goes for the palpation trio at the end (radial, popliteal and dorsalis pedis pulses): they are the reason to know where the arteries run, so they belong beside the artery cards, not after the pathology block.
Write the six cards the deck is missing
The clinical block names structures the deck never defines. You get "ACL tear" and "MCL tear" but no card on the cruciate and collateral ligaments themselves, and the PCL and LCL are absent entirely. Plantar fascia appears only in plantar fasciitis. The patella is called a sesamoid bone without sesamoid being defined; card 53 mentions Trendelenburg gait and card 76 valgus stress, neither explained. Write those six definition cards yourself — they are guaranteed exam items, and the act of writing them is worth more than the reviews.
Housekeeping: several cards carry two facts at once (radius and ulna, tibia and fibula, gluteus medius and minimus, anterior and posterior tibial arteries). Split them, so a miss on one half doesn't drag the other back into the queue.
Related: Head, Neck and Spine Anatomy and Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis Anatomy.
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