Mnemonics Anatomy Study with Mnemonics

Female pelvic organs' blood supply :

" 3 organs, each get 2 blood supplies "

Uterus: uterine, vaginal.
Rectum: middle rectal, inferior rectal [inferior rectal is the end of pudendal].
Bladder: superior vesical, inferior vesical.

 

Cervical plexus: arrangement of the important nerves:

" GLAST "

• 4 compass points: clockwise from north on the right side of neck --

Great auricular
Lesser occipital
Accessory nerve pops out between L and S
Supraclavicular
Transverse cervical

 

Liver: side with ligamentum venosum/ caudate lobe vs. side with
quadrate lobe/ ligamentum teres

" VC goes with VC "

The Venosum and Caudate is on same side as Vena Cava
[posterior]. Therefore, quadrate and teres must be on anterior by default.

 

Anterior forearm muscles: superficial group

There are five, like five digits of your hand.
Place your thumb into your palm, then lay that hand palm down on your other arm,
as shown in diagram.

Your 4 fingers now show distribution: spells PFPF [pass/fail, pass/fail]:

Pronator teres
Flexor carpi radialis
Palmaris longus
Flexor carpi ulnaris
Your thumb below your 4 fingers shows the muscle which is deep to the other four: Flexor digitorum superficialis.

 

Joints in the midline

" SC "

In medial line, below Second Cervical, joints are Secondary Cartilaginous and usually have a diSC.

1. Notes: secondary cartilaginous is also known as symphysis. The one that doesn't have a disc is xiphi-sternal.

 

Median and ulnar nerves: common features:

Each supply 1/2 of flexor digitorum profundus.
Each supplies 2 lumbricals.
Each has a palmar cutaneous nerve that pops off prematurely.
Each supplies an eminence group of muscles [ulnar: hypothenar. median: thenar].
Each enters forearm through two heads [ulnar: heads of flexor carpi ulnaris.
median: heads of pronator teres].
Each has no branches in upper arm.
Each makes two fingers claw when cut at wrist.
Each supplies a palmaris [median: palmaris longus. ulnar: palmaris brevis].

 

Thyroids: relative sizes :

Thyroid looks like a bra:

Breasts are bigger in women, so thyroid bigger in women.
Pregnant women have biggest breasts of all, so they have the biggest thyroids.

 

Superior thyroid artery branches:

" May I Softly Squeeze Charlie's Girl? "

Muscular
Infrahyoid
Superior laryngeal
Sternomastoid
Cricothyroid
Glandular

 

Abdominal muscles:

" Spare TIRE around their abdomen "

Transversus abdominis
Internal abdominal oblique
Rectus abdominis
External abdominal oblique

Perineal vs. peroneal
-- Perineal is in between the legs.

Peroneal is on the leg.

 

Cranial bones:

" PEST OF 6 "

Parietal
Ethmoid
Sphenoid
Temporal
Occipital
Frontal

• The 6 just reminds that there's 6 of them to remember.