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12/9/2002 1:30:25 PM EDT
Any of you long time medics or MD's know a good acronym for remembering the cranial nerves?  I've got an anatomy lab test tonight and can't seem to commit them to memory.  (End of semester burnout I think.)
12/9/2002 1:42:39 PM EDT
[#1]
Something like:
Ooo
Ooo
To
Touch
And
Feel
Very
Good
Vulva
AHhhhh

For Nerves:
Optic
Oculomotor
Trochlear
Trigeminal
Abducens
Facial
Vestibulocochlear
Glossopharyngeal
Vagus
Accessory
Hypoglossal

Hope that helps.
12/9/2002 1:43:46 PM EDT
[#2]
That's great![:)]  That's one I can probably remember.  Thanks!
12/9/2002 1:47:09 PM EDT
[#3]
Works for my students, although I give the sanitized version, let us know how it comes out.
12/9/2002 5:45:45 PM EDT
[#4]
What do you teach?  The test went all right.  It was covering the entire muscular system and the nervous system.  A huge amount of material.  The acronym helped.  I got mixed up on some of the muscles involved in the lower leg, I didn't study that as hard as some of the other areas.  Other than that, I think I did pretty well.  It's over now.  That's the end of two semesters of anatomy.  Only three semesters left and I might actually graduate.  And then I have to figure out what I'm actually going to do with the rest of my life.  Med school, nursing school or finally make the jump from EMT-I to Paramedic and spend the rest of my days running lights and sirens everywhere.  The money sucks doing that, but I've loved doing it for the last 9 years.  Thanks for the help.    

Edited because I can't spell.
12/9/2002 6:00:37 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
That's great![:)]  That's one I can probably remember.  Thanks!
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NO! There are 12 Cranial Nerves!!!
OOOTTAFVGVAH

Remember that Olfactory is I and Optic is II:
One nose and two eyes.
12/9/2002 6:01:43 PM EDT
[#6]
I forgot about the Olfactory nerve.  Seems my Prof did too!
12/9/2002 6:02:40 PM EDT
[#7]
Here's one from [url=http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cranial.html]Neuroscience for Kids[/url]:

On Old Olympus Towering Top A Famous Vocal German Viewed Some Hops
(olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal accessory, hypoglossal)

JScott
12/9/2002 6:03:23 PM EDT
[#8]
Oh, sorry, I see that you already took the test.