AP mnemonics

Vertebrae

C (cervical) for cereal and you eat breakfast at 7

T (thoracic) for taco and you eat lunch at 12

L (lumbar) for lasagna and you eat dinner at 5

5 Smoores and 4 cookies for dessert  (5 sacrum and 4 coccyx)

Wrist (8)

Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle

Proximal Row (closest to your arm, starting at the thumb):

1. Some = Scaphoid (boat-shaped, below thumb)

2. Lovers = Lunate (C-Shaped Cup)

3. Try = Triquetrum (Pisiform sitting on top)

4. Positions = Pisiform (tiny pea-shaped sitting on top triquetrum)

Distal Row (closest to your fingers, starting at the thumb):

5. That = Trapezium (connects to thumb: "TrapeziUM touches the THUMB")

6. They = Trapezoid (four-sided, right next to the trapezium)

7. Cannot = Capitate (largest carpal bone)

8. Handle = Hamate ( hook)

Tarsal Bones (Ankle) – 7 Bones

The Circus Needs More Interesting Little Clowns

• The = Talus (top bone connecting tibia/fibula)

• Circus = Calcaneus (heel bone)

• Needs = Navicular (boat-shaped bone in middle)

• More = Medial Cuneiform (big toe side)

• Interesting = Intermediate Cuneiform (middle cuneiform)

• Little = Lateral Cuneiform (outer cuneiform)

• Clowns = Cuboid (blocky bone on pinky toe side)

Cranial Bones (Skull) – 8 Bones

"PEST OF 8"

• P = Parietal (2 bones — top sides of the head)

• E = Ethmoid (1 bone — deep behind the nose/eyes)

• S = Sphenoid (1 bone — butterfly-shaped bone behind the eyes)

• T = Temporal (2 bones — sides of head around the ears)

• O = Occipital (1 bone — back and base of skull)

• F = Frontal (1 bone — forehead and top of eye sockets)

Ulna

P-U (Pinky Ulna)

Radius

"Rad Thumb"

Tibia

Tibia is Thick and Tough

Fibula

Fibula is Fine (thin) + tells a Little Fib