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Anyone taking A&P I this semester? I need major study tips for learning the bones all 206 of them, including the skull!! Please help!!!!!!:sstrs:

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Anyone taking A&P I this semester? I need major study tips for learning the bones all 206 of them, including the skull!! Please help!!!!!!:sstrs:

Netters flashcards and mnuemonics (spelling?):

For example, the Femur: the fibula is lateral; it is fine outside

For the vertebrae: the thoracic vertebra's spinous process thrusts down

The atlas (world) sits on an axis (c1 and c2)

The ulna and radius: Radius and humerous bone: your cap looks radiant outside (the radius articulates with capitulum and is on the lateral side)

I have more, but not time right now. I just took this test yesterday and feel pretty good about it. Also, look at Body Smart .com for some quizzes that helped.

Oh, The sphenoid bone: looks like a butterfly, has greater wings, smaller wings and pytergoid process (feet) and a saddle (sella turcica)

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Specializes in 2 years as CNA.

Get a picture of a skeleton that you can label, put it in a sheet protector so you can write on it with a wipe-off marker and label, label, label!!!!

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Specializes in Med-surg.

Flash cards will be your BFF when it comes to A&P I or II. Get a leg up on those tissues as well.

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omg we just started the bones today too! I'm really worried about having to know all 206- there's so many! (not looking forward to memorizing all the muscles either..)

I'll probably just think of really silly/stupid things to remember them- When I think of something so absurd I just can't forget it lol- always helps me remember things for tests. Hopefully it will help me out with the bones as well.

I just got my grade back for my first exam- an 88. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. It's a B+, but I feel like I should've studied more and worked harder for an A, but I thought I did study a lot... oh I don't know... A few of the nursing students in my class got a 64%, and they said they studied a lot. I'm worried that next exam the same thing will happen to me..

I paid $40 for the Netter's Anatomy Flashcards for my iPod touch, I hope they come in handy... I haven't had a chance to use them yet, but for the bones they might come in handy- they have a setting where it quizzes you to find a bone, and when you touch the wrong one it tells you and it gives you info on the bones.. I'm hoping it will be worth the 40 bucks...

Either way, I'm so nervous to have to learn them...

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

We just finished the skeleton today! When I got home, I grabbed my kids and began labeling their body with sticky notes! Doing this made it more real for me than staring at text and diagrams from the book. The last thing I did before logging on here was color the skeletal system in my Anatomy Coloring book. As a matter of fact, that book has helped me better memorize most of the body systems we've covered so far. So run - don't walk to the book store and pick one up. They're less than twenty bucks and worth every penny:twocents:! Most important of all - calm down:bluecry1:!!! Doing this: :banghead:, is only going to give you a headache! Don't focus on the number 206, but break it down into parts. Start with the skull bones (touch your own face and skull to memorize what's what), then take on the spine (breakfast is at 7a 7cervical-lunch is at 12p 12 thoracic -dinner is at 5p 5 lumbar; just don't forget the 5 fused sacral & 5 coccyx bones); the ribs are connected to the thoracic vertebrae and since there are 12 thoracic vertebrae bones - it makes sense that there are 12 ribs, right?!:D Just keep going in that way breaking the skeleton down part by part.

Hope this has been helpful. LMN if you need any other advice.:up: REMEMBER...IF YOU GOT THIS FAR THEN YOU CAN KEEP GOING:yeah:! YOU'RE A FUTURE NURSE:nurse: - THAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL:bow:

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

We just finished the skeleton today! When I got home, I grabbed my kids and began labeling their body with sticky notes! Doing this made it more real for me than staring at text and diagrams from the book. The last thing I did before logging on here was color the skeletal system in my Anatomy Coloring book. As a matter of fact, that book has helped me better memorize most of the body systems we've covered so far. So run - don't walk to the book store and pick one up. They're less than twenty bucks and worth every penny:twocents:! Most important of all - calm down!!! Doing this: :banghead:, is only going to give you a headache! Don't focus on the number 206, but break it down into parts. Start with the skull bones (touch your own face and skull to memorize what's what), then take on the spine (breakfast is at 7a 7cervical-lunch is at 12p 12 thoracic -dinner is at 5p 5 lumbar; just don't forget the 5 fused sacral & 5 coccyx bones); the ribs are connected to the thoracic vertebrae and since there are 12 thoracic vertebrae - the 12 ribs and just keep going in that way breaking the skeleton down part by part.

Hope this has been helpful. LMN if you need any other advice.

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We are studying the bones in A+P I too! I am not looking forward to memorizing them all either, but like someone said it's better not to think of it as 206, but to break it down so it is not so daunting (and there are not really 206 that you have to remember anyways because of things like the vertabrae and the fingers/toes :wink2:)

In lab today I did think of one bone hint (but its sooo cheesy! - of course, those are the ones you always remember, right)

To remember the tibia and fibula: most people think that the tibia and fibula are connected to the knee, but the fibula is not so it is "fibbing". The leg bone not connected to the knee is the fibula!

I don't know if that will help you or not, but I thought it was a funny way to remember the two leg bones!

Good luck to all who are having to memorize them bones!!:up:

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