List of mnemonics

• Order of planets from the Sun: (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

obsolete (per the IAU definition of planet):

Most Vegetables Eat More Juice So Usually Never Pee[1]

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Potatoes[1]

Many Vicious Elelphants Met Just Slightly Under New Pineapples[1]

• Stellar classification sequence: O B A F G K M R N S

Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart![2]

• Revised stellar classification sequence: O B A F G K M L T Y

• Old, Bald, And Fat Generals Kiss More Ladies Than You[3]

• To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, [Variety]):
  • "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" is often cited as a non-vulgar method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification system.[4][5] Other variations tend to start with the mythical king, with one author noting "The nonsense about King Philip, or some ribald version of it, has been memorized by generations of biology students".[6]
  • Do Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk?[7]^:69
  • Dumb Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach[7]^:69
  • Do Kindly Place Cover On Fresh Green Spring Vegetables[7]^:69
  • Damn Kernel Panics Crash Our Family Game System[8]
• To remember the processes that define living things:
  • MRS GREN: Movement; Respiration; Sensation; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition[7]^:135[9]
• To remember the number of humps on types of camels:[7]^:67[10]
  • D in Dromedary has one hump; B in Bactrian has two
• To distinguish color patterns between the harmless kingsnake and the venomous coral snake
  • Red next to black will not kill a jack. Red next to yellow will kill a fellow.

To recall the names of the first 20 elements in the periodic table:

Harry, he likes beer by cupfuls, not over frothy, never nasty mugs allowed. Since past six closing, are kegs cancelled?

(H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar, K, Ca.)

• For the EIA electronic color code, Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2), Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5), Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8), White(9), Gold(5%), Silver(10%), None(20%)

Big brown rabbits often yield great big vocal groans when gingerly slapped[11]

Bad boys run our young girls behind victory garden walls[12]

B .B Roy [of] Great Britain [has] Very Good Wife.

• A mnemonic to remember which way to turn common (right-hand thread) screws and nuts, including light bulbs, is "Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey"; another is "Right on, Left off".[7]^:165
• For power in watts: Twinkle twinkle little star, Power equals I squared R.

• The countries of South America in order of largest to smallest by area: Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana, Uruguay, Suriname

• Boring, Average Politics Can Become Very Corrupt. People Everywhere Get Used Sometimes

• The Great Lakes in order of largest to smallest: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

• Super Heroes Must Eat Oats

• Or just to remember them at all

• Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior: HOMES

• The principal factors affecting climate: LABDOWA

Latitude, Altitude, Build, Distance from the sea, Ocean currents, Wind, Aspect

• Geological periods: Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent (Holocene)

• Pregnant Camels Often Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak? Possibly Early Oiling Might Prevent Permanent Rheumatism[7]^:62–63[13]
• Paleozoic to Cenozoic: Pregnant Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak[14]

• Mohs scale of mineral hardness 1-10:[15]

For Talc(=1) Gypsum(=2) Calcite(=3) Fluorite(=4) Apatite(=5) Orthoclase(=6) Quartz(=7) Topaz(=8) Corundum(=9) Diamond(=10)

• Tall Girls Can Fight And Other Queer Things Can Develop[7]^:64
• TAll GYroscopes CAn FLy APart ORbiting QUickly TO COmplete DIsintegration[7]^:64
• Toronto Girls Can Flirt And Only Quit To Chase Dwarves
• Terrible Giants Can Find Alligators Or Quaint Trolls Conveniently Digestible

• Differentiating stalactites from stalagmites.[16]
  • The 'mites go up and the 'tites come down. When one has ants in one's pants, the mites go up and the tights come down.[7]^:66 (In a strict scientific sense, a mite is not an ant, although "mite" in common speech can refer to any small creature.)
  • Stalactites hang tight, hang down like tights on a line; stalagmites might bite (if you sit on them), might reach the roof.[7]^:66
  • Tights hang from the Ceiling, and Mites crawling around on the Ground
  • You need might to do push-ups (from the floor). You must hold tight doing chin-ups (off the ceiling).
  • Stalactites are on the ceiling. Stalagmites are on the ground.[7]^:66
  • Stalactites cling tight to the ceiling; stalagmites might reach the ceiling.

• Chinese dynasties (simplified): Xia (Hsia), Shang, Zhou (Chou), Qin (Ch'in), Han, Jin, Southern and Northern, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing (Ching)

• She Shamefully Chose Chinese Hand Jingles (and) SiNfully Sweet Tango Songs: "You (and) Me, Chickadee!"[13]

• English dynasties (simplified): Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Windsor

• No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely.[17]

See also: Mnemonic verses of monarchs in England

• Wives of Henry VIII (names): Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, Parr

• All Boys Should Come Home Please[7]^:103

• Wives of Henry VIII (manner of death): Divorced, beheaded, died / Divorced, beheaded, survived.[7]^:104

• British nobility rank order (simplified): Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Barons

• Do Men Ever Visit Boston?[13]

• Assassinated US presidents and perpetrators: Lincoln by Booth, Garfield by Guiteau, McKinley by Czolgosz and Kennedy by Oswald.

• Losers Bearing Grudges Grieve Mainly Cowards Killing Orators

• To remember the signs of a stroke:
  • FAST
    • Face (Has the victim's face fallen on one side?)
    • Arms (Can the victim raise both arms and keep them raised?)
    • Speech (Is the victim's speech slurred? Can they repeat a simple sentence?)
    • Time (It is time to contact emergency services.)

• To remember the steps for Resuscitation:
  • D.R.S. A.B.C.D
    • Danger (Check for danger to yourself or others before starting)
    • Response (Check for signs of life or response)
    • Send for help (Call for backup, or Emergency services)
    • Airway (Check for obstruction in the throat)
    • Breaths (Check for breaths)
    • CPR (Commence CPR)
    • Defib (Apply Defibrillator)

• To remember the 10 organ systems of the human body:[26]
  • NICER DRUMS (Nervous, Integumentary, Circulatory, Endocrine, Respiratory, Digestive, Reproductive, Urinary, Muscular, Skeletal)
• Intrinsic muscles of hand[27]

'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

• 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

• 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.

• Sequence of colors in a rainbow or visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet):

"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"

Roy G. Biv is also used as a fictitious name

• Marine[39][40]

• "Red, Right, Return" reminds the skipper entering ("returning to") an IALA region B port to keep red markers to the starboard of the vessel. Conversely the opposite convention exists in IALA region A ports, where a similar (but significantly different) mnemonic of "Red on the Right Returning To Sea" can be used.
• The phrase "there's always some red port (wine) left" is used to remember the basics in seafaring. "Red" refers to the color of navigation lights on the port (left) side of a vessel (as opposed to green on the starboard side).[39]
• "Nuclear Restrictions Constrain Fishing and Sailing, People Say" is used to encode the "order of priority" for which vessels have right of way (earlier in the list has priority over later): Not under command; Restricted; Constrained by draft; Fishing vessel; Sailboat; Powerboat; Seaplane.[39]

• Aviation[41] uses many mnemonics in addition to written checklists. See also Category: Aviation mnemonics

• CRAFT - Clearance limit, Route, Altitude, Frequency, Transponder.
• pre-landing: GUMPS - Gas, Undercarriage, Mixture, Propeller, Speed.
• pre-final: MARTHA - Missed (procedure), Altitude (limit), Radios (set), Time (limit), Heading (final), Airspeed (descent)
• pre-high-altitude - FLOWER - Flow (enabled), Lights (test), Oxygen (charged), Water (humidity), Electricity (on), Radio (check)
• pre-flight-paperwork - ARROW - Airworthiness (certificate), Registration, Required (charts), Operating (checklists), Weight and balance
• night collision avoidance: Red, Right, Returning - Red nav light on Right implies target is Returning (closing)
• radio loss Instrument course - CDEF - as Cleared, else Direct to last fix, else as directed to Expect, else as flight plan Filed
• spin recovery - POKER - Power (off), Opposite (full rudder), Klean (flaps, ...), Elevator (briskly forward), Recover (from dive)

• Metric System - common SI Prefixes: kilo-, hecto-, deca-, deci-, centi-, milli-, in descending order of magnitude.

• King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk[42]
• King Henry Drinks Unusually Dark Chocolate Milk (including the "U" for "Unit", which is ten times bigger than "deci-" and one tenth of "deka-".

• Metric System - other common SI Prefixes: tera-, giga-, mega-, kilo-, centi-, milli-, micro-, nano-, pico-
  • Tony goes mental, kills children, meets many nasty policemen
• Metric System - large SI Prefixes: exa-, peta-, tera-, giga-, mega- kilo-, hecto-, deca-

• Every person that gave me kisses has diarrhea

• Metric System - small SI Prefixes: deci-, centi-, milli-, micro-, nano-, pico-, femto-, atto-

• Dairy cows make milk, not pink fruit, asshole.

• Metric Conversion - common SI Prefixes: kilo-, hecto-, deca-, meters/liters/grams (units of distance, volume or weight?), deci-, centi-, milli-, in descending order of magnitude.

• King Henry Died Many Deaths Counting Money

• United States customary units: No. of feet in mile

• Five Tomatoes: Sounds like Five Two Eight Ohs = 5280 ft in a mile
• Johnny walked from five to eight and said oh my feet = 5280 ft in a mile

• Mnemonic
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• Category: Science mnemonics

• Evans, Rod L. (2007). Every good boy deserves fudge : the book of mnemonic devices (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: Perigee. ISBN 978-0-399-53351-8.
• Parkinson, Judy (2008). I before E (except after C) : old-school ways to remember stuff. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. ISBN 978-0-7621-0917-3.

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