Professor-Style Final Challenge: Channel Pathways and Pathologies

Traditional vocabulary-style flashcards based on the meridian pathways, divergent channels, and extraordinary vessels mentioned in the lecture notes.

Urinary Bladder channel FALSE statement

Passes through the supraclavicular fossa

Heart Luo vessel

The channel's Luo vessel associated with aphasia.

Kidney channel

The channel that connects with every Yin organ except the Spleen.

Small Intestine divergent channel

Enters the axillary fossa before connecting with the Heart.

Urinary Bladder divergent channel

The pathway that enters the popliteal fossa before connecting with the Kidney.

Heart primary channel internal branch

An internal branch that ascends to the 'eye system'.

ST-39 Lower He-Sea point

The point associated with the Small Intestine primary channel.

Du Extraordinary Vessel

Terminates at the junction of the upper lip and gum.

Ren Extraordinary Vessel

Terminates below the eye (ST-1 region).

Hand Taiyang (Small Intestine)

The channel that receives Qi specifically after it has flowed through the Hand Shaoyin channel.

Kidney sinew channel

The sinew channel that binds at the heel.

Urinary Bladder sinew channel

The sinew channel that binds at the buttock and cheekbone.

Du channel pathology

Classically associated with opisthotonos.

Du Luo vessel pathology

Includes heaviness of the head.

Ren channel pathology

Most associated with leukorrhea and infertility.

Kidney primary channel

Begins beneath the little toe and ends at KI-27.

Ren channel

Begins at the lower abdomen, emerges at Ren-1, and ascends the anterior midline.

Hand Shaoyin channel sequence

The four consecutive channels beginning with Hand Shaoyin are $HT \rightarrow SI \rightarrow UB \rightarrow KI$