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To remember the 10 organ systems of the human body: NICER DRUMS (Nervous, Integumentary, Circulatory, Endocrine, Respiratory, Digestive, Reproductive, Urinary, Muscular, Skeletal) Intrinsic muscles of hand 'A OF A OF A' Thenar (lateral to medial-palmar surface):
Abductor pollicis brevis Opponens pollicis Flexor pollicis brevis Adductor pollicis
Hypothenar (lateral to medial-palmar surface):
Opponens digiti minimi Flexor digiti minimi Abductor digiti minimi
Muscles of mandibular nerve (V3 of trigeminal nerve) : Mylohyoid, Tensor tympani + Tensor veli palatini, Digastric (Anterior) – 4 Muscles of Mastication (temporalis, masseter, medial and lateral pterygoids My Tensors Dig Ants for Mom 2 big ones, 2 small ones, 2 tensors, 2 pterygoids Bones of the wrist:Scaphoid bone, Lunate bone, Triquetral bone, Pisiform bone, Trapezium (bone), Trapezoid bone, Capitate bone & Hamate bone Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle She Looks Too Pretty Try To Catch Her So Long To Pinky, Here Comes The Thumb Simply Learn The Positions That The Carpus Has Send Louis To Paris To Tame Carnal Hungers Stop Letting Those People Touch The Cadaver's Hands Differential Diagnosis VINDICATE Cranial nerves
== Music ==
=== Bowed strings === Mnemonics are used in remembering string names in violin standard tuning. Good Dogs Always Eat Greedy Dogs Always Eat Mnemonics are used in remembering string names in viola standard tuning. Cats Give Dogs Advice
=== Guitar === Mnemonics are used in remembering guitar string names in standard tuning. Every Average Dude Gets Better Eventually Eggs Are Deliciously Good Breakfast Energy Eddy Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddy Every Adult Dog Growls Barks Eats. Every Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually Even After Dinner Giant Boys Eat Elephants All Dine Generally Before Eight Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears Every American Dog Gets Bones Easily Every Angel Does Good Before Evil Eat All Day Get Big Easy Eine Alte Dame Geht Heute Einkaufen (German: an old lady goes shopping today) Een Aap Die Geen Bananen Eet (Dutch: A monkey that doesn't eat bananas) Thus we get the names of the strings from 6th string to the 1st string in that order. Conversely, a mnemonic listing the strings in the reverse order is:
Every Beginning Guitarist Does All Exercises! Elvis' Big Great Dane Ate Everything Every Big Girl Deserves An Elephant Easter Bunny Gets Drunk At Easter Easter Bunnies Go Dancing After Easter
=== Ukulele === As for guitar tuning, there is also a mnemonic for ukuleles.
Good Cooks Eat A-lot Gotta Catch 'Em All In the other direction it is Aunt Evie Cooks Grits
=== Reading music ===
Musicians can remember the notes associated with the five lines of the treble clef using any of the following mnemonics, EGBDF: (from the bottom line to the top) Every Good Boy Does Fine. Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (or Friendship, Fun, Fruit, etc.) Eggnog Gets Better During February Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips Eat Good Bread Dear Father Every Good Burger Deserves Fries Every Good Bird Dresses Fly
The four spaces of the treble clef spell out (from the bottom to the top) FACE and can be remembered as FACE fits in the space (between lines) The five lines of the bass clef from the bottom to the top Good Boys Do Fine Always Good Birds Don't Fly Away Grizzly Bears Don't Fly Airplanes Great Basses Dig Fine Altos Goblins Bring Death For All George Bush Didn't Find Anything Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always Garbage Birds Don't Fly Away The four spaces of the bass clef from the bottom to the top All Cows Eat Grass All Cars Eat Gas All Conductors Eat Garbage The five lines of the alto clef from the bottom to the top Fat Alley Cat Eats Garbage The four spaces of the alto clef from the bottom to the top Green Birds Do Fly
The order of sharps in key signature notation is F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯, E♯, B♯, which can be remembered using the phrase Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket. Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Birds. Fidel Castro Gets Drunk And Eats Babies. Fat Cats Greedy Dogs All Eat Bananas. The order of flats is B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭, C♭, and F♭ (reverse order of sharps), which can be remembered using the phrase: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father Blanket Exploded And Dad Got Cold Feet. Before Eating A Doughnut Get Coffee First. To remember the difference between the whole rest and the half rest: A whole rest looks like a "hole in the ground", and a half rest looks like a hat.
=== Music theory === The 7 modern modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian) may be remembered in order with any of several mnemonics: I Don't Play Loud Music After Lunch I Don't Punch Like Muhammad A Li I Don't Particularly Like Modes A Lot I Don't Particularly Like My Aunt's Lasagna Iron Door F(Ph)ridge Lids Mixup (Ae)oily Locals The 7 modern modes in brightest-to-darkest order (Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian, and Locrian) may be remembered as follows: Lilacs In Malaysia Don't Always Provide Longevity LIM DAPL (pronounced "limbed apple")
== Philosophy == THE LAD ZAPPA is a mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important) Ionian philosophers: Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Leucippus, Anaximander, Democritus, Zeno, Anaximenes, Protagoras, Parmenides, Anaxagoras . THE PLAZA PAD is another mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important) Ionian philosophers: Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Protagoras, Leucippus, Anaximander, Zeno, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Democritus. SPA is a mnemonic for the philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in their order of appearance, Socrates first.
== Physics ==
Sequence of colours in a rainbow or visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet): Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Ring Out Your Great Bells In Victory. Roy G. Biv is also used as a fictitious name Raving "Oh, You're Great, Bradley!" Is Valid (from quiz show The Chase, referring to host Bradley Walsh)