Medical Mnemonics
Medical Mnemonics
Cranial Nerves
1. Olfactory Oh Some Sensory
2. Optic Oh Say Sensory
3. Oculomotor Oh Marry Mixed
4. Trochlear To Mary Mixed
5. Trigeminal Touch But Both
6. Abducens And My Mixed
7. Facial Feel Brother Both
8. Acoustic A Says Sensory
9. Glossopharyngeal Good(?) Bad Both
10. Vagus Vein(?) Business! Both
11. Accessory Ah Marry Mixed
12. Hypoglosseal Heaven Money Mixed
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The way to remember which cranial nerves are sensory, motor or mixed:
Some Say Marilyn Monroe But My Brother Says Bridget Bardot Mmm, Mmm!
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Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase. = "People Meet And Talk."
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Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone: Serotonin, Histamine, Muscarinic, Opioids,
Dopamine
Sara Hates Men On Drugs
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Tonsil Arteries: Tonsilar, Maxillary, Pharyngeal, Facial, Internal
Carotid Branch
Tim Made Peter Faint In Class
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Aortic Regurgitation and Mitral Regurgitation
Fast, Full, Loose
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Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve:
Think of exercising muscle for a rightward shift: Exercising
muscle is Hot, Acidic (Lactic Acid), Hypercarbic, Benefits from
oxygen unloading and has an increased 2,3 DPG. Also think Bohr
effect with a rightward shift(_CO2 = _O2). Realize that the
Haldane effect means (O2 =CO2 carried by Hgb).
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Cholinergic Crisis-Parasympathetic Stimulation:
SLUD
Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination and Defecation.
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Sympathetic nervous system: Fight or Flight
Parasympathetic nervous system: Rest and Digest
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C3-C4-C5 keeps the diaphragm alive.
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Spinal Meds: Lidocaine, Bupivicaine, Procaine, Tetracaine
Little Boys Prefer Toys.
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Go Glomerulosa Make Mineralcorticoids
Find Fasiculata Good Glucocorticoids
Rex Reticulata Sex Hormones
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F L A G T O P Hormones of the Anterior Pituitary
F: Follicle Stimulating Hormone
L: Lutinizing Hormone
A: ACTH
G: Growth Hormone
T: Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
O: MSH
P: Prolactin
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President Kennedy had Addisions disease: He always had a great
tan. A president would need cortisol to respond to stress and hypoglycemic.
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Treatment of Malignant Hyperthermia
Some Hot Dude Better Give Iced Fluids Fast!!!
S: Stop all triggering agents, give 100% O2
H: Hyperventilate
D: Dantrolene 2.5mg/kg
B: Bicarbonate
G: Glucose and Insulin
I: IV Fluids, Cooling Blanket
F: Fluid Output; Furosemide
F: Tachycardia, be prepared to treat V Tach
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Regarding what to do in case of syncope:
If the face is red, raise the head. If the face is pale, raise
the tail!
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Nothing beats the old classic list for remembering the branches
of the superior thyroid artery:
MAY muscular
I infrahyoid
SOFTLY superior laryngeal
SQUEEZE sternomastoid
CHARLIE'S cricothyroid
GIRL glandular
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More seriously: "LR6SO4 rest 3" (lateral rectus=3rd cranial,
superior oblique=4, rest of ocular muscles are 3rd cranial)
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Robert Taylor Drinks Cold Beer for:
Roots, Trunks, Divisions,
Cords, Branches (how the nerves are organized along the brachial
plexus from the neck to the fingers).
Real Texans Drinks Coors Beer: See above
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The branches of the facial nerve are:
"Two zulu's bugging my cat"
two temporal
zulu's zygomatic
bugging buccal
my mandibular
cat cervical...
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"9 O P" ninth cranial nerve innervates the parotid gland by way
of the otic ganglion.
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How about this one, the things that pass through the Supraorbital fissure:
Luscious Lacrimal nerve (V1 branch of trigeminal nerve)
French Frontal nerve (V1 branch of trigeminal nerve)
Tarts Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
Sit Superior branch of Oculomotor nerve (CN III)
Naked Nasociliary nerve (CN V1 branch of trigeminal nerve)
In Inferior branch of Oculomotor nerve (CN III)
Anticipation Abducens nerve (CN VI)
Of Ophthalmic veins
Sex Sympathetic nerves
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"RL6SO4 taken 3 times" converts to:
Rectus Lateralis: 6th cranial nerve (abducens)
Superior Oblique: 4th cranial nerve (trochlear)
All other muscles(medial rectus, superior and inferior recti,
and inferior oblique): 3rd cranial nerve (oculomotor)
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Oculomotor Reflex is the 5 & dime reflex:
Afferent: Trimenimal V and Efferent: Vagus X
Back Pain: DISK MASS
D == Degeneration: DJD, Osteoporosis, spondylosis
I == Infection: UTI, PID, Potts, osteomyelitis, prostatitis, Injury/fractur
e, compression fracture.
S == Spondylitis, ankylosing
Spondyloarthropathies (rheum. arthritis, Reiters, SLE)
K == Kidney stones/infarction/infection (pyelo/abscess)
M == Multiple myeloma
Metastasis from breast, prostate, lung, thyroid,
kidney CA
A == Aneurysm Abdominal pain referred to the back (see acute abdominal pain)
S == Slipped disk, spondylolisthesis
S == Strain, scoliosis/lordosis
Skin: herpes zoster.
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