Meds 2001 : The Medical Odyssey Medical Mnemonics Database



BONES

Back Trouble?
This uses the name of a famous Flemish physician to list off the different factors causing back troubles. It's pretty old, though, as knife and bullet wounds aren't mentioned. :^)
O
V
E
S
A
L
I
U
S
Osteomyelitis
Vertebral Fracture
Extraspinal Tumour
Spondylolisthesis
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Lumbar Disk Increase
Intraspinal Tumour
Unhappiness
Stress

Carpal (Wrist) Bones
"Scared Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle." Starting from the thumb, the eight carpal bones are Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, and Hamate. To tell the three T's apart... triquetrum has "tri/try" in it, and trapezium and trapezoid are in alphabetical order.

CARPenters use their hands. The CARPAL bones are of the hand, and not the foot.

Cranial Bones
Annoying, aren't they? The cranial bones are the PEST OF 6...
P
E
S
T
O
F

Parietal
Ethmoid
Sphenoid
Temporal
Occipital
Frontal
the six? the number of bones!

Try this one as well: Old People From Texas Eat Spiders.

Cranial Sutures
Sutures have CLASS...
C
L
A
S
S
Coronal
Lambdoid
and
Squamous
Sagittal

Facial Bones
"Con Man Max and Pal Ziggy Lack Nasty Voices". Not the most intuitive acrostic in the world, but it works...
Con
Man
Max
Pal
Ziggy
Lack
Nasty
Voices
Conchae
Mandible
Maxilla
Palatine
Zygomatic
Lacrimal
Nasal
Vomer

Fontanels (Infant Skull)
A baby's first words might be "PAPA!"...
P
A
P
A
Posterior
Anterior
Posterio-Lateral
Anterio-Lateral

Fractures
Star Wars fans (hi, Inderpal!) use "Go C3PO" to recall the seven types of bone fractures...
G
O
C
C
C
P
O
Greenstick
Open
Complete
Closed
Comminuted
Partial
Other

Lower Leg Bones
Can't tell your tib from your fib? The TIBia is the Thick, Inner Bone. The FibuLa is Finer, Fluted, and Lateral.

Orbital Bones
This one's a bit silly. It relies on the belief that a species called the FLEZMS are in ORBITaround the earth.
F
L
E
Z
M
S
Frontal
Lacrimal
Ethmoid
Zygomatic
Maxilla
Sphenoid
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