Holly ([info]ercasse_ainince) wrote,
@ 2007-08-30 10:28:00
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Entry tags:mnemonic, mnemonics

Thanks for the Memories
I got a great idea from some responses to my last post, in which mnemonic devices came up. I encourage everyone to reply to this post with one or more of your favorite mnemonics. Here are a few of mine:

-- "These are the Stuarts. Here are their names: James, Charles, Charles, James." (Heard this one from [info]icarus_suraki)

-- "PaTHWaYS" To remember the surnames of the monarchs of England -- Plantagenet, Tudor, Hanover, Windsor, York, Stuart

-- "Roy G. Biv" To remember the colors of the rainbow in order -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

-- "TULIP" To remember the five primary tenets of Calvinism -- total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints

-- "Never go down an incline" or "No good dogs are impotent" To remember the noun cases for Old English -- nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental

--"FANBOYS" To remember the seven coordinating conjunctions in modern English -- "for," "and," "nor," "but," "or," "yet," and "so" (thanks to my being a grammar tutor)

-- the now obsolete "My very-educated mother just served us nine pies" To remember the planets of the solar system in order of distance from the sun -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

Now it's your turn. Thanks for the memories!


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[info]shadmere
2007-08-30 03:12 pm UTC (link)
The name I was trying to think of the other day was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Which was another name for Hanover, I think.

Nobility is confusing.

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[info]iatethecookie
2007-08-30 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Queen Victoria was of house Hanover, she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and their children took his name, which was kept until WW1 when they became Windsor

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[info]shadmere
2007-08-30 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Why wouldn't Wikipedia tell me that?

I read the articles for WIndsor, Hanover, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha looking for the exact connection.

Grrr.

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Oh, yeah, the topic.
[info]shadmere
2007-08-30 03:23 pm UTC (link)
King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti. (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.)

And probably the most common mathematical one: FOIL - for how to multiply two binomial expressions. (First, outer, inner, last.)

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[info]rowangirl
2007-09-01 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - for what order to do the parts of a math problem -- Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition Subtraction

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[info]crazybetsy
2007-09-02 03:10 am UTC (link)
MUDPILES for the causes of anion-gap acidosis: Methanol, Uremia, Diabetic ketoacidosis, Paraldehyde (I don't even know what that is), Iron/INH, Lactic acid, Ethanol, Salicylates.

Innervation mnemonic: "C3, 4, 5 keeps the diaphragm alive; C5, 6, 7 raise the arms up to heaven" - that is, your diaphragm is innervated by nerve roots from cervical vertebrae C3, C4 and C5, and the muscles that let you raise your arms are innervated by C5, C6 and C7.

Some Say Marry Money, But My Brother Says Big Brains Matter Most: for the twelve cranial nerves, in order, whether they're sensory, motor or mixed.

I could go on but (1) I can't remember any more and (2) they're kind of boring, actually, but medicine is FULL of mnemonics.

As an aside, I help out with the transcript service periodically, transcribing med school lectures, and there's always a big discussion at the beginning of the year on the differences between "pneumonic" and "mnemonic" (both of which come up in lectures not infrequently) and, if not warned in advance, periodically someone will even creatively come up with "gnomonic" for reasons that are totally unclear to me.

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[info]crazybetsy
2007-09-02 03:18 am UTC (link)
Aw dang, sorry to double-post, but that cranial nerve mnemonic won't make sense without this clarification, if anyone cares... I meant to say Sensory, Motor or Both.

There are also some good ones on the names of the cranial nerves (so this isn't a pure double-post): "On Old Olympus' Towering Tops, A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops" - Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor,Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory/vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Spinal accessory and Hypoglossal. There are some really dirty ones, too. I'll let you look those up yourself. ;)

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