Stupid little song to remember foramen

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

Ok, I just thought I'd share this because I've had a terrible time remembering which foramen which CN pass through. Please forgive my uneven and imperfect meter :chuckle

:Melody: (sung to the tune of: "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance.) (http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/html/p13.html ) has a midi file if you've never heard it)

Olfactory nerve it goes through the porous cribriform

That's the sense that you need to tell you need to clean your dorm

Number two the optic goes through the same name foramen

Fissure in the eyes serves three, four five division one and then

Foramen rotundum it take division five two easily

Five three then visits the skull through foramen ovale

Six goes back and travels with number three and company

It's the sense that makes it possible for you to see

Seven's great it has two places I must know

stylomastoid foramen is the very first to go

then acoustic meatus on the inside if I may say

those words are hard to fit in the song I made today

Eight goes with the latter of the two holes from above

I think songs make this kinda fun don't you my love

The next three together would be nine ten eleven

and they all pass through the jugular foramen

That just leaves us twelve and it's same named like number two

Don't worry now, I promise that I'm almost through

Foramens spinosum lacerum and magnum

carry arteries so surely don't forget 'em.

:p I don't know about anyone else, but I can memorize anything if it's set to music :chuckle

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry.

OMG! I've never heard that song before and just sat here for like 20 minutes trying to figure it out, which I think I did!!! Thanks a bunch!!!

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

Well...I hope you haven't heard it before....I made it up this afternoon to try and help me remember them all *LOL* I can memorize bajillions of song lyrics but I couldn't seem to remember which CN went with which foramen. :D

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I love it!! I'm the same way ... if i think of a little song or make a rhyme up I'll remember something... otherwise, I'm a mess! Great JOB, and thanks for sharing with the rest of us !!! :yelclap:

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry.

If you do another one, you should do it to the tune of like, Gwen Stefani, Usher, or something else that people would know!!! That way, we can practice in the car when it comes on the radio! :chuckle

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If you do another one, you should do it to the tune of like, Gwen Stefani, Usher, or something else that people would know!!! That way, we can practice in the car when it comes on the radio! :chuckle

WHO !?!?!??!?!

oh....I am 54...hmmmm; that must be it. :)

NurseFirst

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry.
WHO !?!?!??!?!

oh....I am 54...hmmmm; that must be it. :)

NurseFirst

LOL! I suppose anybody would do! Maybe the Beatles??? Doesn't everybody like them? I would listen to that! :chuckle

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

Yeah, the problem is, pop music isn't usually timed right to get a lot of information out there. The easiest ones I've found to write little ditties to are Turkey in the Straw and Modern Major General. There are some others that really lend themselves well, and once people hear the tune, they recognize the music.

The only way I remember my state capitals is through this song from the Animanaics:

(sung to Turkey in the straw)

Baton rouge louisiana, indianapolis indiana and columbus is the capital of O HI O

there's mongomery alabama south of helena montana and there's denver colorado under boise idaho.

texas has austin then we go north to massachusetts boston and albany new york

tallahassee florida and washington d.c.

santa fe new mexico and nashville tennessee (elvis used to hang out there a lot, you know)

Trenton's in new jersey north of jefferson missouri, you've got richmond in virginia south dakota has pierre

harrisburg's in pennsylvania and augusta's up in Maine (a) and here is providence rhode island next to dover delaware.

concord new hampshire, just a quick jaunt to montpelier which is up in vermont

hartford's in connecticut, so pretty in the fall, kansas has topeka, minnesota has st. paul.

Juneau's in alaska and there's lincoln in nebraska and it's raliegh out in north carolina and then

there's madison wisconsin and olympia in washington phoenix arizona and lansing michigan

Here's honalulu hawaii's a joy, jackson mississippi and springfield illinois

south carolina with columbia down the way and annapolis in maryland on chesapeake bay (they have wonderful clam chowder)

cheyenne is in wyoming or perhaps you make your home in salt lake city out in utah where the buffalo roam

atlanta's down in georgia and there's bismark north dakota and you can live in frankfort in your old kentucky home.

salem in oregon from there we join little rock in arkansas, iowa's got des moines,

sacramento california oklahoma and it's city, charleston west viginia and nevada, carson city. That's all the capitals....there are!

:D

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