Thread: Anatomy Mnemonics

This thread is for you to post your anatomy mnemonics. Please post only anatomy mnemonics.

Penis autonomic innervation actions

"Parasympathetic Puts it up. Sympathetic Spurts it out".
Alternatively: "Point and Shoot": Parasympathetic Points it, Sympathetic Shoots out the semen.
· Erection and Ejaculation (Emission).

Deep tendon reflexes: root supply

God designed body reflexes according to a nursery rhyme:
One, two-- buckle my shoe. Three, four-- kick the door. Five, six-- pick up sticks. Seven, eight-- shut the gate.
S1,2 = ankle jerk
L3,4 = knee jerk
C5,6 = biceps and brachioradialis
C7,8 = triceps

Serratus anterior: innervation

SALT:
Serratus Anterior = Long Thoracic.

Brachial plexus subunits

Randy Travis Drinks Cold Beer":
Roots
Trunks
Divisions
Cords
Branches
· Alternatively: "Read The Damn Cadaver Book!"
· Alternatively: "Real Texans Drink Coors Beer".

Interossei muscles: actions of dorsal vs. palmar in hand

"PAd and DAb":
The Palmar Adduct and the Dorsal Abduct.
· Use your hand to dab with a pad.

External carotid artery branches

"Suzy Always Lays Flat On Pillows Making Sex Terrific":
Superior thyroid
Ascending pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Maxillary
Superificial Temporal

Atrioventricular valves

"LAB RAT":
Left Atrium: Bicuspid
Right Atrium: Tricuspid

Horner's syndrome components

SPAM:
Sunken eyeballs/ Symphathetic plexus (cervical) affected
Ptosis
Anhydrosis
Miosis

Inferior vena cava tributaries

"I Like To Rise So High":
Illiacs
Lumbar
Testicular
Renal
Suprarenal
Hepatic vein.
· Think of the IVC wanting to rise high up to the heart.

Brachial artery: recurrent and collateral branches

"I Am Pretty Sexy"
Inferior ulnar collateral artery goes with Anterior ulnar recurrent artery.
Posterior ulnar recurrent artery goes with Superior ulnar collateral artery.
· Alternatively: "I Am Pretty Smart".