Anatomical Mnemonics

Mnemosyne was a Greek goddess of memory. Mnemonics are simple memory devices to assist you in remembering things. The mnemonic typically uses the first letter of each of the words you are trying to remember and makes some nonesense phrase or imaage. Some of these listed below are "classics" and are provided as examples. The first one is an example of one that I made up because it created an easily recalled visual image. In general, those that you create for yourself are the most useful.

Bones of the Orbit "FLEZMPS" imagine fleas with mumps

Frontal

Lacrimal

Ethmoid

Zygomatic

Maxilla

Palatine

Sphenoid

Cranial Nerves

ON Olfactory

OLD Optic

OLYMPUS Oculomotor

TOWERING Trochlear

TOPS Trigeminal

A Abducens

FINN Facial

AND Auditory

GERMAN Glossopharyngeal

VIEWED Vagus

SOME Spinal Accessory

HOPS Hypoglossal

Vertebrae

CLEVER Cervical

THOMAS Thoracic

LOVES Lumbar

SILLY Sacral

CATHY Coccyx

Portal Blood Sources

LARGE Large Intestine

PANCAKES Pancreas

SPOIL Spleen

SMALL Small Intestine

STOMACHS Stomach

GALORE Gall Bladder

Upper Limb Bones

SOME Scapula

CRIMINALS Clavicle

HAVE Humerus

UNDERESTIMATED Ulna

ROYAL Radius

CANADIAN Carpals

MOUNTED Metacarpals

POLICE Phalanges

Bones of the Hand

NEVER Navicular or SOME Scaphoid

LOWER Lunate LOVERS Lunate

TILLIE'S Triquetrum TRY Triquetrum

PANTS Pisiform POSITIONS Pisiform

MAMA Multangular, Greater THAT Trapezium

MIGHT Multangular, Lesser THEY Trapezoid

COME Capitate CANNOT Capitate

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