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Supine vs. prone body position

Know SUPination is your hand while carrying a bowl of SOUP. Your face follows where your palm is facing [i.e. up]. Put a handpuppet on your hand while hand is in supination and the puppet will be the supine position.
· See diagram.

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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Carpal bones: trapezium vs. trapezoid location

· Since there's two T's in carpal bone mnemonic sentences, need to know which T is where:
TrapeziUM is by the thUMB, TrapeziOID is inSIDE.
· Alternatively, TrapeziUM is by the thUMB, TrapezOID is by its SIDE.
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---Tom Ball Imperial College, UK

Lumbricals action

Lumbrical action is to hold a pea, that is to flex the metacarpophalangeal joint and extend the interphalangeal joints. When look at hand in this position, can see this makes an "L" shape, since L is for Lumbrical.

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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Elbow: which side has common flexor origin

FM (as in FM Radio):
Flexor Medial, so Common Flexor Origin is on the medial side.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Medial malleolus: order of tendons, artery, nerve behind it

"Tom, Dick, And Nervous Harry":
· From anterior to posterior:
Tibialis
Digitorum
Artery
Nerve
Hallicus
· Full names for these are: Tibialis Posterior, Flexor Digitorum Longus, Posterior Tibial Artery, Posterior Tibial Nerve, Flexor Hallicus Longus.
· Alternatively: "Tom, Dick ANd Harry".
· Alternatively: "Tom, Dick And Not Harry".
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---Deepa S. and LCK Medical student and University of Ottawa

Tibia vs. fibula: which is lateral

The FibuLA is LAteral.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Popliteal fossa: muscles arrangement

The two Semi's go together, Semimembranosus and Semitendonosus.
The Membranosus is Medial and since the two semis go together, Semitendonosus is also medial.
Therefore, Biceps Femoris has to be lateral.
Of the semi's, to remember which one is superficial: the Tendonosus is on Top.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Femoral triangle: arrangement of contents

NAVEL:
· From lateral hip towards medial navel:
Nerve (directly behind sheath)
Artery (within sheath)
Vein (within sheath)
Empty space (between vein and lymph)
Lymphatics (with deep inguinal node)
· Nerve/Artery/Vein are all called Femoral.
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---Andrew J. Vasil UMD School of Medicine, Duluth, MN

Femoral triangle: arrangement of nerve, artery, vein

VAN:
· From medial to lateral:
Vein
Artery
Nerve
· Nerve/Artery/Vein are all called Femoral.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Bronchi: which one is more vertical

"Inhale a bite, goes down the right":
Inhaled objects more likely to lodge in right bronchus, since it is the one that is more vertical.

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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin