As well as the cranial nerves (see Oh, oh, oh to touch and feel virgin girls vaginas and hymens) there are many other mnemonics used by medics, anatomy students, etc to help learn the seemingly never-ending amount of information about the body. And because its anatomy, the dirtier the better! Here are a few of my faves, which I am sure other people have variations of:
The carpal bones of the hand going clockwise round in the anatomical position starting with the scaphoid bone, found in the anatomical snuffbox. (The anatomical snuffbox, weird name no? I think it is named so because, in the days of snuff sniffing, people used to put the snuff there to sniff from, but seems a daft place to sniff snuff from to me. If you abduct your thumb as far as it will go, the anatomical snuff is the triangle dip formed below the thumb on the back of the hand just above the wrist. If you’re bothered, its borders are formed by the tendons of Extensor Policis Longus, ulnar side, and Extensor Policis Brevis and Abductor Policis Longus, radial side. It is important medically as it contains the scaphoid bone and the radial artery. But am seriously deviating from the subject here. Right, back to carpal bones.)
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Which would translate as:
Scaphoid
Lunate
Triquital
Pisiform
Hamate
Capitate
Trapezoid
Trapezium
The branches of the parotid gland.
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Which would translate as:
Temporal
Zygomatic
Buccal
Mandibular
Cervical
Branches of the External Corotid Artery in a sort of figure of eight style thing.
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Which would translate as:
Ascending pharyngeal
Superior thyroid
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior Auricular
Superficial Temporal
Maxillary
What the cervical roots of the Brachial Plexus join and divide into.
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Which translates as:
Roots
Trunks
Divisions
Cords
Nerves
There are numerous others but will go on forever if tried to include them all. So there you go, anatomy IS fun yey.