## 11. MNEMONICS

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- 11. mnemonics - general
- 11.1 mnemonics
- 11.2 mathematics
- 11.3 computer science
- 11.4 physics
- 11.5 chemistry
- 11.6 biology and medicine
- 11.7 earth sciences
- 11.8 miscellany

### 11.6 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

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    From: Lisa Friesen <lfriesen@accglobal.net>
     Phrenic nerve: C3,4,5...keeps the diaphragm alive

    (C3,4,5 are the spinal levels supplying the phrenic nerve, which innervates
    the diaphragm.  Breathing ceases when these spinal levels are damaged. We
    were given this by one of our med profs.)

    From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius@attbi.com>

    C-3-4-5; keeps you breathing and alive
    L-2-3-4; keeps the shit up off the floor.

    Gene Aidan Johnson <gaj3@po.cwru.edu> gives a correction:
    Its not L-2-3-4 its   S-2-3-4 keeps your shit off the floor.

    L-2-3-4 goes to the lumbar plexus, Sciatic nerve, Obturator and other
    fucking nerves like that.
    [Personally, I have no idea - Joachim]

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    The brachial Plexus: "Robert Taylor Drinks Cold Beer"

    R=roots, T= trunks, D=divisions, C=cords, B=branches

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    From: bethany@robotron.rs.itd.umich.edu
     She was all gal (ALGAL) and he was a fun guy (FUNGI).  They took a likin'
    (LICHEN) to each other.
      In order to remember that LICHEN are made up of ALGAE and FUNGI (it's
    better spoken).

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    The 12 Cranial nerves:
    From: sterner@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Kevin Sterner)
    On Old Olympus's Towering Top, A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops

    From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael J. Edelman)
    On Old Olympus' towering top, a fat-assed german veiwed a hop.

    From: john.tant@exchange.com (John Tant)
    On Old Olympus, Terry Tried Abducting Fanny After Giving Vegas Some Help

    Oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel a girl's vagina- ah, heaven!

    From: ARChester <hchester@sprintmail.com>
    Oh, Oh, Oh, to touch a fast girl very sexy and hot.

    From: spbcajk@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andrew John Kale)
    Oh, Oh, Oh To Touch A Fair Virgin's Glistening Vagina And Hymen for the
    twelve cranial nerves:

    Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial,
    Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal

    (Corrected by Link <shprap@earthlink.net>)

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    From: gilad <roniko@ibm.net>
     a nice mnemonic will allow you to remember whether as nerve is sensory (S)
    , motor (M) or both (B). Each word of this 12 word sentence correspond to
    the cranial nerve of the same number:

    Some Say Marry Money, But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter More!

    From: sharworld@aol.com (Sharworld)
    Some Say Marry Money But My Brother

    Says Bad Business Marry Money.

    From: Dennis Feely <dfeely@unlinfo.unl.edu> "Some Surgeons Make Money But
    My Brother Says Buxom BLondes Make More"

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    From: abw@bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)

     Anatomy, for the bones of the wrist:

    "Never lower Tillie's pants. Grandmother might come home."

    Navicular Lunate Triquetral Pisiform Greater Multangular Lesser Multangular
    Capitate Hamate

    From: spbcajk@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andrew John Kale)
    I was always taught this as :

    Scabby Lucy Tried Peeing Having Copulated Twenty Times

    Scaphoid Lunate Triquetral Pisiform Hamate Capitate ... and two others I've
    forgotten (it was a long time ago!)

    From: "Lyn Smither" <lyn_smither@hotmail.com>
     anatomy- bones of wrist
     The more shocking the better: "her cunts too tight, so lubricate the
    penis" has always stuck with me.

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    From: dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)

    Classification:
     Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Variety.

    Kings play cards on fairly good soft velvet.

    Kings Play Cards On Fat Girls Stomachs.

    From: Matthew K Ashford <mkast9+@pitt.edu>
     Kings Play Chess On Fat Guy's Stomachs.

    From: "Dave Noice" <dnoice@copper.net>
     Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand

    From: gjb@evolving.com (Gregory Bloom)
     Then there's the ever-popular 'King Phillip Cuts Open Five Green Snakes'
    for Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

    From: alderc@aol.com (Alder Castanoli)

    King Philip Came Over From Germany Speedily

    From: <iyoung@buddy.wright.edu>:
     King Phillip Came Over For George's Sword

    From: joev@garden.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau):
     King Phillip Came Over For Good Sex

    From: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit)
     King Philip can only farm green spinach.

    From: olivcm@OAMPC7.uucp (Colleen M. Oliver)
     King Phillip Came Over For Green Spaghetti.

    From: Charlie Gibbs (Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca)
     King Phillip Came Over for a Glass of Scotch

    From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin)
     King Phillip: Come Out For God's Sake.
      (From Colin Fletcher, "The Man Who Walked Through Time" - a
    book about a walk down the length of the Grand Canyon)

    From: (scotcampbell@delphi.com)
     King Phillip Came Over From German Soil

    From: gedau <gedau@mim.com.au>
     Kinky People Can Only Fuck Goannas Sideways.

    From: "... sara ..." <silver_creature@hotmail.com>
     Kinky people can often find great/good sex

    From: tjd@db.erau.edu (Tim Drozinski)

    King Phillip Came On Four Groovy Skanks.  King Phillip Came On Five
    Gorgeous Sluts.

    From: "Gary S. Polunsky" <garpo@prodigy.net>
     King Phillip Called Out For Gumbo Soup.

    From: "Timothy D. Betts" <tdbetts@students.wisc.edu>
     Keep Phillip's/Phyllis's Clothes Off For Great Sex
     Keep Putting Chemistry Off For Greater Subjects

    From: sichase@csa5.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
    King Phillip Came Over From

    Germany, Stoned on Gin, Rum, and Vodka.

    This gives you subspecies classifications as well (variety, etc.)

    From: drg <drgehman@concentric.net>
     King Philip Called Out Fire - Get Someone Very Brave
     Kingdom, Phyllum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Variety/Breed

    From: dloucks@primenet.com (Donovan Loucks)
    Way, back in high school, one

    of the gals in our Advanced Biology class was named Kim.  So, the mnemonic
    was:
       Kim's Pretty Coccyx Often Feeds Green Snakes

    From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
    Kraft Parmesian Cheese

    On Fingers Gets Sticky

    From: "Michael A. Arocho" <krispy-@email.msn.com>
     Kids Pick Cooties Off Fat Girl Scouts

    Kings Play Chess On Falling Glass Stairs.

    From: "Chris Giauque" <cgiauque@wirthlin.com>
     Keep Papers Coming Or Flunk General Science!

    From: hjiwa@nor.chevron.com
     Kitty Put Catnip On Fido's Ground Steak

    From: bhunt <bhunt@DEPAUW.EDU>
     Kevin Put Condom On For Great Sex.

    It's pretty good, if you can ignore the dangling preposition.

    From: Dawn Mariko Lester <dmlester@artsci.wustl.edu>
     Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Go Splat

    From: "Edward L. Hipkiss" <ed_hip@yahoo.com>
     Kids Put Cats On Flaming Gas Stoves

    From: Katy <your1way@ficom.net>
     Kryptonite Promotes Casualty Overwhelmingly For Godlike Superman

    From: Jo Ann McIntosh <jam62@bellsouth.net>
     Ken Poured Coffee On Fran's Good Shirt.
      it's a clean mnemonic for the taxonomic categories that I learned in the
    7th grade.

    From: MFraz1956@aol.com

    Kindly Please Come Over For Great Sex

    or For Gay Sex, if that's how you swing...

    From: "123 Thompson" <thompson819@hotmail.com>

    Kids Prefer Candy Over Fresh Green Spinach

    From: BougeG@aol.com
    King Phylum Classes things in Order of thier Families.  He's a Genus - s -s
    -s -s.

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    From: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com>

     All Chaperones Must Previously Have Had Sex.

    Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primata, Hominidae, Homo, Sapiens.

    Man's taxonomy.

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    From: sclatter@littlewing.Eng.Sun.COM (Sarah Clatterbuck)
    Corrected by:  "Justin D. Held"
    Then there's my personal fave, because I made it up:

    "Lazy zebras ponder dire disasters."

    leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene and diakinesis

            I think the spellings may be wrong.  They're the five sub-phases of
    the prophase of meiosis (reproductive division).

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    From: mmmr4za1@fs2.scg.man.ac.uk (Zahid Ahmed)

    S2,3,4 ...keeps the penis off the floor. (Innervation)

     ONE heart,
     TWO lungs (beta 1 receptors in the heart, beta2 in the lungs)
     Two Zulu's Buggered My Cat (Facial muscles,Temporal, Zygomatic.....etc,)

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    From: Elizabeth Hodgson <ehodgson@eagle.ycp.edu>

     Muscles of the anterior compartment of the lower leg Granny Sells Pies
    Every Tuesday

    Gastrocnemius, Soleus, Peroneals, Extensor digitorum longus, Tibialis
    anterior

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    From: Elizabeth Hodgson <ehodgson@eagle.ycp.edu>

     Carpels (wrist bones)

    Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle

    From: Paul Baines <paul.baines@nmhs.govt.nz>
    I prefer the following to remember the carpal bones:-

    Touching Tits Causes Happiness
    So Let's Touch Plenty

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    From: Dev Britto <dtbritto@unixg.ubc.ca>
     This has helped me immensely in remembering the citric acid cycle (aka
    Kreb's cycle, TCA [=tricarboxylic acid] cycle):

    Actors In Kansas Should See Foreign Movies, Of Course

    (Aconitate, Isocitrate, a-Ketoglutarate, Succinyl-coA, Succinate, Fumarate,
    Malate, Oxaloacetate, Citrate).

    Can Intelligent Karen Solve Some Foreign Mafia Operations?  The Krebs
    Cycle: Citric acid, Isocitric, Ketoglutaric, Succinyl, Succinic, Fumaric,
    Malic, Oxaloacetic.

    From: Sharon Chan <chanseypokemon@yahoo.com>
    Citrate   Is   A   Sour   Substance   For   Most   Organisms

    Citrate   Isocitrate   Alpha-ketoglutarate   Succinyl Coa-A    Succinate  Fumarate  Malate  Oxaloacetate

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    Cell Cycle: Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

    From: Jo Ann McIntosh <jam62@bellsouth.net>

     I passed my algebra test.

    From: mtwenzel@pdqnet.com (Michael Wenzel)
    I learned it as "Immediately Paul Made Anna Talk";
     however, I teach it to my students as
     "I Pee (on the) M.A.T." -- a little more straightforward

    From: kbatch06@postoffice.providence.edu
    In Poland Midgets Are Tall.

    Reply-To: "The Hesseltines" <corgis@neb-sandhills.net>
    From: "The Hesseltines" <corgis@neb-sandhills.net>
    prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase

    Pete made a touchdown

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    From: Bullseye01@aol.com

     Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananas...  Neutrophil, Lymphocyte, Monocyte,
    Eosinophil, Basophil

    These are the white blood cells also in descending percentage (65, 30, 6,
    3, 1%).  To divide them by agranular and granular, put it as...

    Never Eat Bananas Like Monkeys ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ {granular } {agranular }

    "60 30 8 2 0 - Never Let My Engine Blow" (Number represent percentages of
    White Blood Cells in descending orede: Neutrophils, Lymphocytes, Monocyes,
    Eosinophils, Basophils).

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    From: Mike Evans <chuan@optonline.net>

    Here's one for all of you acupuncturists:  "Lucille Has Special Little
    Kids, Henry."
    (Yin Organs- Lung, Heart, Spleen Liver, Kidney, Heart Envelope)

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    From: Mike Evans <chuan@optonline.net>
    Immunoglobulins - "Getting Ass Most Days -- Excellent!"  (G, A, M, D, E)

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    From: "James" <jaspin@altel.net>
     Here's a way to remember the insertion of the iliopsoas common tendon:
     It inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur.
     So, you remember it by thinking that if you have a sore ass (so' ass --
    psoas), you want to sit less.

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    From: Chris Townsend <CTown77134@aol.com>

     In the words of the great Daniel.E.Wujek "Sedges have edges, rushes are
    round, and grasses like asses have holes."

    A very generic key to distinguish monocots.

    From: Gene Aidan Johnson <gaj3@po.cwru.edu>
    sedges have edges
    rushes are round
    grasses are hollow right down to the ground

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    From: "William J. Kokolis" <wjkokoli@hsc.vcu.edu>

     I finally came up with one for remembering the order in which amino acids
    come off of an ion-exchange column following complete peptide digestion.
    The first sentence is what comes off and in what order, the second sentence
    are the four acids that require other methods to detect.

    "Drugs that Sara effortlessly pushes grant another very mellow illusion;
    let your favorite heroes kill racists.  No quitters can win"

    Each word begins with the one letter abbreviation of the respective amino
    acid:

    D Aspartate T Threonine S Serine E Glutamate P Proline G Glycine A Alanine
    V Valine M Methonine I Isoleucine L Leucine Y Tyrosine F Phenylalanine H
    Histidine K Lysine R Arginine

    Followed by:

    N Asparagine Q Glutamine C Cysteine W Tryptophan

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    From: ASaucyGal@aol.com

    To remember that Stratified Squamous cells are found in two locations:
    Lining the Mouth -- Lining the Vagina --

    One is Stratified Squamous -- the other SATISFIED Squamous

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    From: Suzanne Conklin <suzconklin3@cox.net>

    Here is a story I made up to remember the path of blood flow through the heart.

    Right Atrium >> Right Ventricle >> lungs for oxygen pick up >> Left Atrium
    >> Left Ventricle >> through body for oxygen distribution >> back to Right
    Atrium.

    A resident assistant (RA) at a California college decided he was sick of
    his job, so he rented an RV.  He stopped at the gas station to fill up,
    then traveled to Los Angeles (LA), Las Vegas (LV), then all around the
    country.  Finally sick of his road trip, he returned to his job as an RA.

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    From: "The Hesseltines" <corgis@neb-sandhills.net>
    gravida, para, preemies, abortions (miscarriages) , living at home

    GOSH!    Ten people are late!

    This is the easiest way to keep ones OB number given to a patient in mind.
    It falls under the medical category.  Used by nurses and doctors alike as
    well as nursing and medical students.

    Gravida;Number of times one has been pregnant
    Term;  THe number of pregnancies that have gone to term
    Preemies;   The number of preemie deliveries one has had
    Abortions;  The number of abortions and miscarriages on ehas had
    Living;  The number of living children one has at home.

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    From: "Mike Smith" <someone@thedoor.clara.co.uk>

     Here's on you will always need. it helps you to remember the year colour
    marking for Queen Honeybees.The years start with zero and the colours
    repeat every five years.so a Queen born in say 1999 can be marked blue one
    born in 2001 will be yellow.
      Will -- White
      You -- Yellow
      Raise -- Red
      Good -- Green
      Bees -- Blue

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    From: "Seah Kwee Boon, Brandon" <seahswhg@singnet.com.sg>

    Abaxial and adaxial are two terms in botany that refer to the two surfaces
    of a leaf. Abaxial refers to the lower and adaxial the upper surface. So to
    remember, aBaxial is the Bottom and aDaxial is Da' Top!

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#### Subsections

- 11. mnemonics - general
- 11.1 mnemonics
- 11.2 mathematics
- 11.3 computer science
- 11.4 physics
- 11.5 chemistry
- 11.6 biology and medicine
- 11.7 earth sciences
- 11.8 miscellany

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