Mnemonics

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Specializes in ICU.

I am big on using mnemonic for anything I can.

What are some mnemonics you've heard or come up with to help you?

Here's one we've probably all heard.

Bones of the Skull

Fraternity - Frontal

Parties - Parietal

Often - Occipital

Teach - Temporal

Sex Ed - Sphenoid

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The mnemonics I've used so far are:

  • For cranial nerves - "On Occasion Our Trusty Truck Acts Funny, Very Good Vehicle AnyHow" (olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, and hyploglossal)
  • For the vertebra, just remember the times people typically eat meals; 7am - breakfast - 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 pm - lunch - 12 thoracic vertebrae, 5pm - dinner - 5 lumbar vertebrae

Hope this helps!

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Specializes in Surgical ICU, Anesthesia.

WBC prevalence from most to least

Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananes

Neutrophils

Lymphocytes

Monocytes

Eosinophils

Basophils

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Specializes in DD, HHC, Med Surg, PCU, Resource.

I don't know if this is helpful for anything but the TEAS test when you have to convert metrics but...

Keep-Kilo

Him-Hecto

Dancing-Deka

Until-Unit

December-Deci

Can-Centi

Melt-Milli

I got a 100 on my metric conversions on the TEAS! :lol2:

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Specializes in DD, HHC, Med Surg, PCU, Resource.

And another on the WBC to help you remember which ones are granulated

BEN is a bear that says GR!

B-Basophils

E-Eosinophils

N-Neutrophils

GR-Granulated

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Some of my favorites:

The carpal bones of the hand:

Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle (in order from the bottom row starting with the thumb for the first 4, then the top row starting at the thumb for the last 4)

Scaphoid

Lunate

Triquetrum

Pisiform

Trapezium

Trapezoid

Capitate

Hamat

And my personal favorite

The Citric Acid Cycle:

Cindy Is Kinky So She Fornicates More Often

Citric Acid

Isocitrate

Alpha Ketoglutarate

Succinyl CoA

Succinate

Fumarate

Malate

Oxaloacetate

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My A&P teacher gave us an interesting mnemonic for the cranial nerves "oh oh oh to touch and feel virgin girls vagina and heinies"

hahahahaha

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Adductor Group of the leg:

Grab My Leg Baby Please

Gracilis

Adductor Magnus

Adductor Longus

Adductor Brevis

Pectinius

Rotator Cuff mm:

SITS

Supraspinatus

Infraspinatus

Teres Minor

Subscapularus

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My A&P teacher gave us an interesting mnemonic for the cranial nerves "oh oh oh to touch and feel virgin girls vagina and heinies"

hahahahaha

That is border line creepy that your teach gave that to you :chuckle

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That is border line creepy that your teach gave that to you :chuckle

Uh, yes it is! Our anatomy teacher instead substituted "very good velvet, ah."

Though I have heard/read/whatever that people remember the dirty ditties better than the clean ones.

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Uh, yes it is! Our anatomy teacher instead substituted "very good velvet, ah."

Though I have heard/read/whatever that people remember the dirty ditties better than the clean ones.

Probably true you are correct!

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