NPTE Mnemonics - Questions With Tailored Solutions
Deep tendon reflexes:
One, two-- buckle my shoe. Three, four-- kick the door. Five, six-- pick up
sticks. Seven, eight-- shut the gate. Right Ans - S1,2 = ankle jerk
L3,4 = knee jerk
C5,6 = biceps and brachioradialis
C7,8 = triceps
Atrioventricular valves
"LAB RAT": Right Ans - Left Atrium: Bicuspid
Right Atrium: Tricuspid
Cubital Fossa Content
"Really Need Booze To Be At My Nicest": Right Ans - • From lateral to
medial:
Radial Nerve
Biceps Tendon
Brachial Artery
Median Nerve
Flexor digitorum muscles: how they insert onto fingers Right Ans -
Superficialis Splits in two,
To Permit Profundus Passing through.
Penis autonomic innervation actions Right Ans - "Parasympathetic Puts it
up. Sympathetic Spurts it out".
Carpal bones
"Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle": Right Ans - •
Proximal row then distal row, both lateral-to-medial:
Scaphoid
Lunate
Triquetrium
Pisiform
Trapezium
Trapezoid
Capate
Hamate
,Axillary artery branches
"Screw The Lawyer Save A Patient": Right Ans - uperior thoracic
Thoracoacromiol
Lateral thoracic
Subscapular
Anterior circumflex humeral
Posterior circumflex humeral
Diaphragm apertures: spinal levels
"Voice Of America": Right Ans - • In order from smallest to highest spinal
number:
Vena cava: T8
Oesophagus: T10
Aorta: T12
Hand: nerve lesions
DR CUMA: Right Ans - Drop=Radial nerve
Claw=Ulnar nerve
Median nerve=Ape hand (or Apostol [preacher] hand)
Pterygoid muscles: function of lateral vs. medial Right Ans - "La": your jaw
is now open, so Lateral opens mouth.
"Me": your jaw is still closed, so medial closes the mandible.
Interossei muscles: actions of dorsal vs. palmar in hand
"PAd and DAb": Right Ans - The Palmar Adduct and the Dorsal Abduct.
Rotator cuff muscles
"The SITS muscles": Right Ans - • Clockwise from top:
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapularis
• A pro baseball pitcher has injured his rotator cuff muscles. As a result, he
SITS out for the rest of the game, and then gets sent to the minor leagues.
Inferior vena cava tributaries
"I Like To Rise So High": Right Ans - "I Like To Rise So High":
, Illiacs
Lumbar
Testicular
Renal
Suprarenal
Hepatic vein.
• Think of the IVC wanting to rise high up to the heart.
External carotid artery branches
"Some Aggressive Lovers Find Odd Positions More Stimulating": Right Ans
- Superior thyroid
Ascending pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Maxillary
Superificial temporal
Superior orbital fissure: structures passing through
"Lonely Fat Teenage Virgins Rarely Like Swallowing And Never Ingest":
Lacrimal nerve Right Ans - Lacrimal nerve
Frontal nerve
Trochlear nerve
Vein: ophthalmic
Ring: tendinous
• From the ring, arises:
Lateral rectus
Superior division III
Abducent nerve
Nasociliary nerve
Inferior divison III
Heart valve sequence
"Try Pulling My Aorta": Right Ans - Tricuspid
Pulmonary
Mitral
Aorta
Deep tendon reflexes:
One, two-- buckle my shoe. Three, four-- kick the door. Five, six-- pick up
sticks. Seven, eight-- shut the gate. Right Ans - S1,2 = ankle jerk
L3,4 = knee jerk
C5,6 = biceps and brachioradialis
C7,8 = triceps
Atrioventricular valves
"LAB RAT": Right Ans - Left Atrium: Bicuspid
Right Atrium: Tricuspid
Cubital Fossa Content
"Really Need Booze To Be At My Nicest": Right Ans - • From lateral to
medial:
Radial Nerve
Biceps Tendon
Brachial Artery
Median Nerve
Flexor digitorum muscles: how they insert onto fingers Right Ans -
Superficialis Splits in two,
To Permit Profundus Passing through.
Penis autonomic innervation actions Right Ans - "Parasympathetic Puts it
up. Sympathetic Spurts it out".
Carpal bones
"Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle": Right Ans - •
Proximal row then distal row, both lateral-to-medial:
Scaphoid
Lunate
Triquetrium
Pisiform
Trapezium
Trapezoid
Capate
Hamate
,Axillary artery branches
"Screw The Lawyer Save A Patient": Right Ans - uperior thoracic
Thoracoacromiol
Lateral thoracic
Subscapular
Anterior circumflex humeral
Posterior circumflex humeral
Diaphragm apertures: spinal levels
"Voice Of America": Right Ans - • In order from smallest to highest spinal
number:
Vena cava: T8
Oesophagus: T10
Aorta: T12
Hand: nerve lesions
DR CUMA: Right Ans - Drop=Radial nerve
Claw=Ulnar nerve
Median nerve=Ape hand (or Apostol [preacher] hand)
Pterygoid muscles: function of lateral vs. medial Right Ans - "La": your jaw
is now open, so Lateral opens mouth.
"Me": your jaw is still closed, so medial closes the mandible.
Interossei muscles: actions of dorsal vs. palmar in hand
"PAd and DAb": Right Ans - The Palmar Adduct and the Dorsal Abduct.
Rotator cuff muscles
"The SITS muscles": Right Ans - • Clockwise from top:
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapularis
• A pro baseball pitcher has injured his rotator cuff muscles. As a result, he
SITS out for the rest of the game, and then gets sent to the minor leagues.
Inferior vena cava tributaries
"I Like To Rise So High": Right Ans - "I Like To Rise So High":
, Illiacs
Lumbar
Testicular
Renal
Suprarenal
Hepatic vein.
• Think of the IVC wanting to rise high up to the heart.
External carotid artery branches
"Some Aggressive Lovers Find Odd Positions More Stimulating": Right Ans
- Superior thyroid
Ascending pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Maxillary
Superificial temporal
Superior orbital fissure: structures passing through
"Lonely Fat Teenage Virgins Rarely Like Swallowing And Never Ingest":
Lacrimal nerve Right Ans - Lacrimal nerve
Frontal nerve
Trochlear nerve
Vein: ophthalmic
Ring: tendinous
• From the ring, arises:
Lateral rectus
Superior division III
Abducent nerve
Nasociliary nerve
Inferior divison III
Heart valve sequence
"Try Pulling My Aorta": Right Ans - Tricuspid
Pulmonary
Mitral
Aorta
