Share your mnemonics and tricks

Endocrine--my favorite (NOT!)

Hyperthyroidism (s/s)
THYROIDISM
Tremor
Heart rate up
Yawning (fatigueability)
Restlessness
Oligomenorrhea & amenorrhea
Intolerance to heat
Diarrhea
Irritability
Sweating
Muscle wasting & weight loss

Cranial Nerves

Oh Olfactory Some
Oh Optic Say
Oh Oculomotor Marry
To Trochlear Money
Touch Trigeminal But
And Abducens My
Feel Facial Brother
Virgin Vestibulocochlear Says
Girl's Glossopharangeal Big
Violins Vagus Breasts
Ah Accessory Mean
Heaven Hypoglossal More

For the third column, S stands for sensory, M for motor, and B is both. Also, you have one nose, so Olfactory is CNI, two eyes, so optic is CNII. To remember which order the As come in, ABducens comes before ACcessory alphabetically.

And yes, I know the original version is not "violins".

Acute Pancreatitis: I GET SMASHED

I - idiopathic
G - gallstone
E - EtOH
T - trauma
S - steroids
M - mumps (paramyxovirus) and other viruses (EBV, CMV)
A - autoimmune
S - scorpion sting / snake bite
H - hypercalcemia, hyperlipidemia and hypothermia
E - ERCP
D - drugs, duodenal ulcers

P pi**ed
F fell
O over

Pi**ed and fell over

how many arteries & veins are there in a newborn? =AVA,2 arteries 1 vein

Artery
Vein
Artery

Oh these are what I live for!!!!!!!

OLFDBH
Old Lady Fell Down Broke Hip

EGBDF
Every Geriatric Believes Doctors Findings! (case of white coat syndrome!)

NRPD
Nurses Rule, Patients Drewl!

CTD
Circling the Drain

TBWT
Talented butt wiping technition

GDFDWB
Got Drunk Fell Down Went Boom

OPQRST (real one for actute pain/situations)
Onset, Preexisting factors, Quality, Relieving factors, Scale (1-10), Time elapsed.

MLDA
Murphys law dictates all!

the rest I know are from EMS and are too..umm...well lets say funny but rude...LOL!!!!!!!

One of the A&P Prof.s at my school uses this one too, and my A&P book had one about Oh Our Old Trusty Truck but I would get the O's T's and V's all mixed up so I made up my own using the first few letters of each nerve.

OLd
OPen
OCeans
TROpical
TRIangles
ABDUCt
FAmous
VESsels
GLOrious
Voyages
ACCross
Hemispheres

Then I made up a song
Sensory 1-2-8,. . . Sensory 1-2-8,. . . 5-7-9-10 mixed,. . . 5-7-9-10 mixed.
Made up songs for all sorts of stuff, sung them all the time and eventually the information became so well lodged in my head I could recall it easily (without the song). It was a little embarrasing for the Profs to see me bopping my head to the rhythem of my songs during the tests though .
I know for a fact one saw, he got a kick out of it.

ART
Assuming
Room
Temperature

CTD
Circling
The
Drain