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Thread #60671 Message #972529
Posted By: Mark Cohen
26-Jun-03 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tricks for remembering...
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tricks for remembering...
Uh, Bill H., there's no such word as "seldomly" -- "seldom" is an adverb all by itself, thank you very much!
On old Olympus' towering top, a fat-assed German vaults and hops.
That's for the cranial nerves: Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Acoustic, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal.
(If you want to call the XI nerve "Spinal accessory" then it's "viewed some hops." And if you want to make it suitable for younguns, then you say a fat-"eared" German, and remember "eared" stands for the acoustic--or auditory--nerve.)
There was another one for the cranial nerves, but this is a PG-13 rated site.
Robert Taylor Drinks Coors Beer: Roots, trunks, divisions, cords, branches. Has to do with the brachial plexus.
Never lower Tillie's pants; Grandma might come home.
That's the 8 bones of the wrist: navicular, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, Greater multangular, lesser Multangular, capitate, hamate.
I've forgotten quite a few since med school!
Aloha,
Mark