anatomy mnemonics

[barasch]

Our professor had a good one.

'roses are red, violets are blue, the serratus anterior is innervated by the long thoracic nerve'

Seriously, anyone know of any good mnemonics for this stuff...

Is there a sticky somewhere that I missed?

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[Blade28]

www.medicalmnemonics.com

 

[jammin06]

stop the leaky sinks and pipes

branches off of axillary

superior thoracic
thoracoacromial
lateral thoracic
subscapular
anterior circumflex humeral
posterior circumflex humeral


also:
Randy Travis drinks cold beer
(Real texans drink cold beer)

parts of the brachial plexus
roots
trunks
divisions
cords
branches

 

[BaylorGuy]

S2,3,4 keeps the 3 P's off the floor (Penis, Poo, and Pee).

 

[cfdavid]

Interesting to see that other schools are starting on the axillary region as well...

 

[Law2Doc]

stop the leaky sinks and pipes

branches off of axillary

superior thoracic
thoracoacromial
lateral thoracic
subscapular
anterior circumflex humeral
posterior circumflex humeral


also:
Randy Travis drinks cold beer
(Real texans drink cold beer)

parts of the brachial plexus
roots
trunks
divisions
cords
branches

Rule #1 for mnemonics -- If it's not offensive or dirty you will never remember it.

 

[Northerner]

Rule #1 for mnemonics -- If it's not offensive or dirty you will never remember it.

And for every dirty mnemonic you know, there will be a stout married woman in your class who will know a clean version to ruin it.

 

[jllander]

Valves of the heart, in the order of blood flow:

Toilet Paper My @$$
(tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, aortic)

 

[Law2Doc]

And for every dirty mnemonic you know, there will be a stout married woman in your class who will know a clean version to ruin it.

Actually most of the rudest mnemonics I know come from stout married women. 🙂

 

[jammin06]

Rule #1 for mnemonics -- If it's not offensive or dirty you will never remember it.

Hrm...perhaps these might be better and more to your taste:

Roots of spinal cord

Dorsal - sensory
Ventral - Motor

Don't screw Venetian Midgets

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Bones of the Hand

(Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrium,Pisiform) /, (Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate)

(Proximal/Distal Row)

Some lovers try positions that they cannot handle

 

[densmore22]

Our professor had a good one.

'roses are red, violets are blue, the serratus anterior is innervated by the long thoracic nerve'

Seriously, anyone know of any good mnemonics for this stuff...

Is there a sticky somewhere that I missed?

Do you go to Jefferson in Philly? Because the only other time I've heard that was from this doctor I worked w/ and that's where he went to med school-way back though, but that's where he said he learned it from. Just curious.

 

[barasch]

Do you go to Jefferson in Philly? Because the only other time I've heard that was from this doctor I worked w/ and that's where he went to med school-way back though, but that's where he said he learned it from. Just curious.

good guess, I am a student at Jefferson.

The anatomy guy has been here for 33 years, so I guess a lot of doctors have heard that joke before.

Thanks for the tips everyone.

 

[SuperC]

One of my favorites.
... Cranial Nerves and function....

I Olfactory / Sensory
II Optic / Sensory
III Occulomotor /Motor
IV Trochlear / Motor
V Trigeminal / Both
VI Abducens / Motor
VII Facial / Both
VIII Auditory (statoacoustic) / Sensory
IX Glossopharyngeal / Both
X Vagus / Both
XI Accessory / Motor
XII Hypoglossial / Motor

I Oh! / Some
II Ohh!! / Say
III Ooohh!!!! / Marry
IV To / Money
V Touch / But
VI And / My
VII Feel / Brother
VIII A / Says
IX Good / Big
X Vagina /Boobs
XI Ah / Matter
XII Heaven! /More

-C

 

[realitybias]

whoops, someone beat me to the cranial nerves ;P

 

[Rogue Synapse]

One of my favorites...

I like this one I learned in undergrad better, though it's missing the ever-so-memorable vagina reference.

I Olfactory
II Optic
III Occulomotor
IV Trochlear
V Trigeminal
VI Abducens
VII Facial
VIII Auditory
IX Glossopharyngeal
X Vagus
XI Spinal Accessory
XII Hypoglossial

I On
II Old
III Olympus'
IV Towering
V Tops
VI A
VII Finn
VIII And
IX German
X Viewed
XI Some
XII Hops

mmm beer...

 

[MattD]

Branches of the thoracoacromial artery:
Atlantic City Police Department

Acromial branch
Clavicular branch
Pectoral branch
Deltoid branch

Terminal branches of the Brachial Plexus:
My Aunt Raped My Uncle

Musculocutaneous nerve
Axillary nerve
Radial nerve
Median nerve
Ulnar nerve

Muscles of the rotator cuff:
SITS

Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapular

Order of the contents of the cubital fossa (medial to lateral):
TAN

Tendon (biceps brachii)
Artery (brachial)
Nerve (median)

 

[francisdoss]

Branches of the thoracoacromial artery:
Atlantic City Police Department

Acromial branch
Clavicular branch
Pectoral branch
Deltoid branch

Terminal branches of the Brachial Plexus:
My Aunt Raped My Uncle

Musculocutaneous nerve
Axillary nerve
Radial nerve
Median nerve
Ulnar nerve

Muscles of the rotator cuff:
SITS

Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapular

Order of the contents of the cubital fossa (medial to lateral):
TAN

Tendon (biceps brachii)
Artery (brachial)
Nerve (median)

C'mon guys, keep thid thread running.

 

[OrnotMajestic]

Another cranial nerve one:

Some Say Money Matters But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter More

S = Sensory
M = Motor
B = Both

I = Sensory
II = Sensory
III = Motor
IV = Motor
V = Both
VI = Motor
VII = Both
VIII = Sensory
IX = Both
X = Both
XI = Motor
XII = Motor

Someone in your class WILL be offended and change "boobs" to "brains"...but seriously, who remembers that? Who cares about brains? As was said above...some stout married woman will ruin this with "brains" because she is convincing herself that it is why her husband married her in the first place.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

 

[forkslide]

Phrenic Nerve-

C3,4,5 keeps you alive!

 

[fizzbot]

This is a fantastic thread keep it going!

 

[Nerdoscience]

C6 7 and 8 help a guy to masturbate.

 

[Nerdoscience]

In CPR with little children, you use your little finger to see what they ate (C8). In other words the C8 dermatome includes the little finger. Ok, that one's dumb and not so memorable, but it worked for me.

 

[Zweihander]

Valves of the heart, in the order of blood flow:

Toilet Paper My @$$
(tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, aortic)

Weird. I never knew there was a pneumonic for this.

 

[Nerdoscience]

Using this a teaching opportunity. It's MNEMONIC, from mnemon, meaning memory, not pneumon, which means lung. There is no p, and no u in mnemonic.

Ok, gonna remove the stick from my ass now so I can be a useful member to society again.

 

[jllander]

Weird. I never knew there was a pneumonic for this.

Well, it worked for me! 😀

 

[Pianoboe01]

Femoral triangle:

NAVeL: nerve, artery, vein, (empty), lymphatics
OR
venous next to penis

 

[SF_Hopeful_MD]

Cranial Nerves

Tips for a Triple Orgasm (OOO):

Tonight Take Approximately Four Viagra.
Good Vodka Still Helps.

I Olfactory
II Optic
III Occulomotor
IV Trochlear
V Trigeminal
VI Abducens
VII Facial
VIII Vestibulocochlear
IX Glossopharyngeal
X Vagus
XI Spinal Accessory
XII Hypoglossial

 

[pmpkn219]

Here's the few I remember (love that heart valves one! I always forget their order somehow...)

Brachial plexus parts:
Robert Taylor Drinks Cold Beer
Roots/Trunks/Divisions/Cords/Branches (not sure who RT is...)

Reflexes/Myotomes:
S1, S2 buckle my shoe (ankle dorsiflexion)
L3, L4 shut the door (familiar knee-kick)
C5, C6 pick up sticks (biceps contraction/elbow flexion)
C7, C8 lay them down straight (elbow extension)

Cranial nerves😡
Oh - Olfactory
Oh - Optic
Oh - Occulomotor
To - Trochlear
Touch - Trigeminal
And - Abducens (abducents? anyone else seen it that way??)
Feel - Facial
Virgin - Vestibulocochlear
Girl's - Glossopharyngeal
Vagina - Vagus (vag = vag)
So - Spinal accessory
Hairy - Hypoglossal

^^^saved my life on a few questions, along with their functions:
Some Say Marry Money But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter More
Keeping the ones with same first letter straight can sometimes get confusing, but at least this way you cna remember the first letter, and usually that was enough of a recall hint for me to get the rest of it.

I'd seen the Old Olympus one, but it never stuck like the dirty one did. In fact, one of our 60 year old lady lab professors came to our tank during head/neck and told it to us, and all 4 of us kinda muttered and looked down and said "eh, that one's kinda tricky". She was ok with that and then asked "so what do you guys use?", and one of the guys in my group very diplomatically told her "it's umm, not real appropriate". She laughed and moved on. I'm sure she's heard them all before anyway, but it was kinda funny to see us look at each other deciding what to say...

 

[vhawk]

Nobody knows To Zanzibar By Motor Car?

Its for the branches of the facial nerve, temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular and cervical.

 

[jammin06]

Aka "Two zebra bit my camel"

 

[rup47]

or Two Zebra bit my Coccyx

And then for the branches of the external carotid there is

Some Angry Lady Figured Out PMS

Superior Thyroid
Ascending Pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior Auricular
Maxillary
Superficial Temporal

 

[Dookter]

For the outer epaxial muscles of the back: I Like Sex

[Iliocostalis, longisimus, spinalis]

 

[med_heidelberg]

onkel otto onaniert tag täglich aber freitags vögelt er gerne viele alte huren

ehh .. uncle otto jerks off every day but on fridays he likes to sleep with lots of old ******

german version of the cranial nerves .. haha.

 

[psipsina]

stop the leaky sinks and pipes

branches off of axillary

superior thoracic
thoracoacromial
lateral thoracic
subscapular
anterior circumflex humeral
posterior circumflex humeral


also:
Randy Travis drinks cold beer
(Real texans drink cold beer)

parts of the brachial plexus
roots
trunks
divisions
cords
branches

For the branches off Axillary A. I liked
Suzy Tastes Like Sweet Apple Pie

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Point and Shoot

Parasympathetics for erection, Sympathetics for ejaculation. 😀

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Our professors have put a lot of the sexual ones in lectures, Maryland must be a weird school.

 

[Ms. Lippy]

Any more out there for the head and neck?

 

[Thundrstorm]

For the outer epaxial muscles of the back: I Like Sex

[Iliocostalis, longisimus, spinalis]

My TAs must be holding back on the dirty mnemonics because they suggested "I Like Spaghetti"

 

[indo]

Phrenic Nerve-

C3,4,5 keeps you alive!

keeps the diaphragm alive.

 

[indo]

why do you need a pneumonic to remember 3 back muscles?

 

[Thundrstorm]

Because they're 3 of many... and hearing the first letter is enough to trigger the word.

 

[Flopotomist]

I wonder where that "On old olympus..." mneumonic for the cranial nerves originally came from... It seems like we all have heard that acronym (and I admit, it is the one I use) and yet, does it actually make sense to anybody? What the heck does it mean?

 

[sandg]

Another for the branches of the axillary artery:
Screw the lawyer, save a patient

For the attachments of teres major, latissimus dorsi, and pectoralis major mm. to the intertubercular sulcus (on the humerus):
Lieutenant between two majors

Parasympathetic ganglia in the head:
COPS

For the contents of the femoral triangle. This one omits the empty space with lymphatics, which may be important for an anatomy exam. In the real world, however, you'll never forget where the femoral vein is when it comes time to place a central line. Starting in the midline:
Dick VAN Dyk

 

[LJDHC05]

Some Lovers Try Positions
That They Cant Handle

Scaphoid Lunate Triquetrum Pisiform
Trapezium Trapezoid Capitate Hamate

That one ran rampant on our limbs exam

 

[Sondra]

Point and Shoot

Parasympathetics for erection, Sympathetics for ejaculation. 😀

Another one -
Parasympatheric pops it up. Sympathetic spits it out.

 

[omniatlas]

Cranial nerves, but instead of 'Ah Heaven', 'And Hymens' 8)

 

[Nosferatu]

I think my fav and most useful so far has been for the wrist bones.

Some lovers try positions that they can't handle.
Scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezoid, trapezium, hamate
It's even in order if you take it as 2 separate rows of 4 going lateral to medial.

 

[SailCrazy]

It's even in order if you take it as 2 separate rows of 4 going lateral to medial.

Would it be of any real use if they didn't go in order?!? 😛

... and I know this is a good one (used in during the anatomy practical on Friday) but it isn't worthy of mention 3 (or more) times!

 

[Pemulis]

ICE TIE

Internal Spermatic Fascia, Cremasteric Fascia, External Spermatic Fascia

continuous with

Transversalis Fascia, Internal Abdominal Oblique Aponeurosis, External Abdominal Oblique Aponeurosis

 

[pagemmapants]

"RALeS"

Right Anterior, Left Superior

Regarding where the pulmonary artery is relative to the primary bronchi on which respective lung. (i.e. on the right lung the pulmonary artery is anterior to the bronchus)