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(Don't forget to look at Page 2 of Part 1. The way I forgot.) So, what is the Olympus mnemonic and what are the nerves?Are you sure you really wanted to know? On Old Olympus' timbered tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops. I Olfactory II Optic III Oculomotor IV Trochlear V Trigeminal VI Abducens VII Facial VIII Auditory IX Glossopharyngeal X Vagus XI (Spinal) Accessory XII Hypoglossal They are the Official names of the twelve cranial nerves, and are often referred to with Roman numerals. I put "Spinal" is in parentheses, because of the variant mnemonic that ran "Oh, Oh, Oh, to touch and feel a girl's vagina, ah!" which is the one I learned, and has an A instead of an S for number XI. My sister, on the other hand, being one of only four women in her class in a different medical school, learned about Old Olympus because since she was a girl no one would tell her the "real" mnemonic. But, you know, the silly mnemonics work, and we still remember the sequence even though we haven't used it in forty years. There's also the one about which nerves innervate the muscles that move the eye, which went (let's see how this preformatted text comes out) LR (SO )
6 4 3
That's a pseudo-chemistry formula, and it is read "L R six, S O four taken three times"
and means that the Lateral Rectus muscle is moved by the sixth nerve, the Superior Oblique by the fourth nerve, and the other four by the third nerve.
Medical school, and anatomy in particular, is just chock full of such delights.
I won't even begin to tell you about the mnemonic for the five branches of the third division of the trigeminal nerve. Come up with your own, the way my classmate George did. I will say only that they are the Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular, and Cervical. (but I can PM you, if you insist.}
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On the subject of cranial nerves, remember there are a lot of people with thirteen
cranial nerves - the extra one being their colossal nerve.
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I'm confused. Now we have a fork in the road? But it looks like it makes sense.
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how can I remember which one to look at? 
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Medical school, and anatomy in particular, is just chock full of such delights.http://www.medicalmnemonics.com
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Chemistry also has some good ones -
to this day, I can remember my elderly, gray-haired chemistry teacher (17 years ago), prancing around the lab, singing:
H He
LiBeBCNOFNe
NaMgAlSiPSClAr
KCa
I appreciate that it doesn't have quite the same effect without the ludicrous musical accompaniment, but you'll just have to imagine that - it obviously worked though, 'cause I can still remember the elements order long after I've forgotten what they actually were.
The other chemistry one I know is a bit gruesome:
Little Johnny's dead and gone,
He'll be back no more.
For what he thought was H2O...
was H2SO4
And lastly, but probably most usefully are instructions for wiring a British plug:
You have a blue wire and a brown wire.
Blue has an 'L' in it and Brown has an 'R'
So, the blue wire goes to the left and the brown to the right
(and if they've given you an earth that only leaves one place for it to go)
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You have a blue wire and a brown wire.
Blue has an 'L' in it and Brown has an 'R'
So, the blue wire goes to the left and the brown to the right
(and if they've given you an earth that only leaves one place for it to go)
Trouble is, rkay, that I invariably hold the plug with the wire pointing away from me! Is this why the fuses in my house are always blowing? 
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blue wire goes to the left
And is that upside right or downside up?
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In maths we used to use 'Soh Cah Toa Soc' for sine = opposite over hypotenuse, cosine = adjacent over hypotenuse, tangent = opposite over adjacent and sine over cosine = tangent. For some reason it worked well and has stayed with me.
It would be interesting to know why some things work and some don't. Has anyone done a study on it? Or is that WW's plan in addition to cornering the market in ukeleles (there was a great Jeeve's and Wooster book where the plot revolved about Bertie playing a uke, and Jeeves resigned in protest, must look it up).
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Here's a handy one if you like to combine music and mnemonics-- plus it gets us away from medicine and math and into the finer arts!
The most common French verbs that take etre instead of avoir Thanks for catching my earlier inversion! Wouldn't want give you all a bum steer!!
Forgive some spelling mistakes, it's been over 50 years since I learned it.
Alle, parti, sorti, venu,
Devenue, retourne.
Arrive, reste, rentre, entre,
Tombe,nee, et morte.
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