Mnemonics of Anatomy

LAYERS OF THE SCALP

Skin
Connective tissue (dense)
Aponeurosis
Loose connective tissue
Pericranium
MUSCLES DEPRESSING THE MANIBALE
Please
Drop
My
Gum

Pterygoid, lateral
Digastric
Mylohyoid
Geniohyoid

MAIN COURSES
Structures passing through the cavernous sinus
Offers
Oculomotor nerve
To
Trochlear nerve
Operate Ophthalmic division of trigeminal nerve
Are
Abducens nerve
Cautiously
Carotid artery (Internal)
Made
Maxillary division of trigeminal nerve
CONTENTS OF THE CAROTID SHEATH
Idleness
Causes
Vice

Internal jugular vein, lateral

Carotid artery (internal, common), medial
Vagus nerve, posterior and between

BRANCHES OF THE EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY

Some
Adolescents
Like
Fun
Others
Prefer
SadoMasochism

Superior thyroid
Ascending pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Superior temporal
Maxillary

BRANCHES OF THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY (CEREBRAL PORTION)

Only
Press
Carotid
Arteries
Momentarily

Ophthalmic
Posterior communicating
Choroidal
Anterior cerebral
Middle cerebral

BRANCHES OF THE FACIAL ARTERY

All
Tonsils
Get
Slashed
In
Sick
Lads

Ascending palatine
Tonsillar
Glandular
Submental
Inferior labial
Superior labial
Lateral nasal

TRIBUTARIES OF THE INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN

Illicit
Frivolous
Lovers
Play
Silent
Music

Inferior petrosal sinus

Facial
Lingual
Pharyngeal
Superior thyroid
Middle thyroid

CRANIAL NERVES
On
Olfactory
Old
Optic
Olympus'
Oculomotor
Towering
Trochlear
Top
Trigeminal
A
Abducens
Finn
Facial
And
Acoustic-Vestibular
German Glossophyryngeal
Viewed
Vagus
Some
Spinal Accessory
Hops
Hypoglossal
CRANIAL NERVE FUNCTIONS
I
II
III

Some
Say
Marry

IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
X

Money
But
My
Brother
Says
Bad
Business
Marry
Money

S= sensory nerve: M= motor nerve: B=both (mixed)

MENINGES OF BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
PAD:

Pia
Arachnoid
Dura