Intramembraneous Ossification Song for AP!

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Specializes in ICU.

i thought this little study aid might come in handy for anyone who was like me and is having troubling remembering the process of intramembraneous ossification. i wrote this little song to the tune of the beverly hillbillies. please note that i took creative license with a couple of the rhymes.

if anyone has any suggestions on ways to improve it, please let me know! i hope it helps...it definitely helped me! for some reason i needed a ton of mnemonics for ap1, but hardly any for ap2. hmmm...

the intramembraneous ossification song

intramembraneous is nothing you should fear.

first thing you know an ossification center appears.

mesenchymal cells cluster together kinda fast,

next thing you know they become osteoblasts!

(bone forming cells, that is....laying down osteoid)

well that osteoid mineralizes in a few short days,

it becomes bone matrix and there the osteoblast stays.

it builds so much around itself and has no food to bite!

that's when an osteoblast becomes an osteocyte.

(mature bone cell, that is....hanging out in the bone)

next thing you know embryonic vessels invade.

bone grows around it, it's how woven bone is made.

osteoid gets laid down oh so randomly!

this network formation is called trabeculae.

(temporary, that is...different from spongy bone)

mesenchyme on external membrane faces condense.

this forms the periosteum, which supplies bone with nutrients.

remodeling continues from birth through childhood...

a bony collar forms, as i'm sure you knew it would.

(a stabilizer, that is...trebeculae thicken & merge)

with the bony collar in place the bone is held steadfast

as the inside is broken down by the osteoclasts.

woven bone is replaced by diploe....

it fills with red marrow, and now your bone's ready!!!!!!!

:D

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.

That is just plain AWESOME! I tutored AP I and II last year and so wish that I had seen this last year. If you don't mind, I'm going to print it out for the current tutor. Maybe that will help her with some of her tutees.

Got any for remembering the s/s of all the Hyper and Hypo conditions of the endocrine system? LOL.......

think you chose the wrong profession, you should be a song-writer LOL

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Specializes in 2 years as CNA.

LOVE IT!!!! Just plain awesome. :lol2:

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Specializes in ICU.

OMG that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in ICU.
That is just plain AWESOME! I tutored AP I and II last year and so wish that I had seen this last year. If you don't mind, I'm going to print it out for the current tutor. Maybe that will help her with some of her tutees.

Got any for remembering the s/s of all the Hyper and Hypo conditions of the endocrine system? LOL.......

think you chose the wrong profession, you should be a song-writer LOL

haha....only if my songs could be totally hokey reconstructions that have to do with NURSING! And no...I didn't make any memory aids for the endocrine system. For some reason I didn't need them in APII...maybe it was the teaching style of the instructor, or I just plain didn't have time (it was a summer course).

Yes, please...print out and share!

I do have quite a few study aids for AP I though...silly things. If I can find them I'll post them.

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Polka-dot I have come across another thread of yours for some A&PII materials. There were some that you had not posted but stated that if you were contacted that you would share the ones you did not post. I was wondering if you would be kind of enough to share with me. More specifically the notes on the respiratory system, digestive system. There was a thread that listed like 5 or 6 things. I was looking to get that from you. Also would like to thank you oodles for taking the time to post your notes. AWESOME - TOTALLY AWESOME!! YOU ROCK. Your notes have helped me tremendously. I was wondering if I could get the additional materials from you. Wink

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