Learning Anatomy

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Reply 80

Lil08

Original post by Wangers

Pfft, try doing head, neck and the intracranial compartment in a week.

You're not serious. That's impossible.

Reply 81

hoonosewot

Original post by Lil08

You're not serious. That's impossible.

It's not impossible, but i doubt you could do it to a very good standard.

Reply 82

Lantana

Original post by Wangers

Pfft, try doing head, neck and the intracranial compartment in a week.

, It may have been 2 but I've blocked certain weeks from my mind

Reply 83

Wangers

Original post by Lil08

You're not serious. That's impossible.

Perfectly serious. 2nd year is just sheer brute work. We were tested on it to the same standard as the rest of the anatomy. You would get 30 seconds to look at a skull with a pin in somewhere and decide - What is the innervation to the muscle which arises here? Or there is a lesion in this nerve, what is the most likely clinical effect?

Reply 84

ilovehotchocolate

I agree that Acland's is awesome, but I wouldn't use it until you get to uni. I got the Grey's Anatomy Flashcards and learnt the bones, some of the larger muscles and the directional descriptors like superior, anterior, abduct, distal etc., so I could orientate myself when it came to learning specifics later in the course. It helped me. It's true there is so much to learn, it's silly to try and tackle it all at once on your own, but there's no harm in learning the basics. If you have a smart phone I'd reccommend Speed Anatomy. And the colouring book is a must. Ovaries shall be forever purple. If they are not purple, they are not ovaries :smile:

Reply 85

Beska

Original post by ilovehotchocolate

the directional descriptors like superior, anterior, abduct, distal etc.,

That's what I've tried to learn - just definitions and stuff. I don't want to try and learn anything more complicated because I'm afraid I might "learn it wrong" (if that makes sense) and I'll end up getting right confused when I'm re-taught it later in the course.

Reply 86

_lynx_

Original post by Beska

I used the hip abductor and the hip adductor at the gym yesterday. I've already forgotten which one is which :facepalm:

Bring on September!

Reply 87

Kinkerz

Original post by _lynx_

I used the hip abductor and the hip adductor at the gym yesterday. I've already forgotten which one is which :facepalm:

Bring on September!

Broadly:
Adduction is coming towards you: adding to you.
Abduction is taken away from you: abducted.

Our professor of anatomy told us to remember it that way :p:

Reply 88

ilovehotchocolate

Original post by _lynx_

I used the hip abductor and the hip adductor at the gym yesterday. I've already forgotten which one is which :facepalm:

Bring on September!

Abductor - limb goes away from the median plane. I think about my arms going away from my sides and I'm inflating like a Balloon. aBduct - Balloon.
Supinate - palms up - like you're holding soup in your hands
Pronate - palms down - like you are a pro basketball player dribbling the ball.
:redface:

Reply 89

_lynx_

Original post by Kinkerz

Broadly:
Adduction is coming towards you: adding to you.
Abduction is taken away from you: abducted.

Our professor of anatomy told us to remember it that way :p:

When I think abduction, I'll think of hip abduction. When my legs are opening, my balls are prone to being abducted. Now why do I get the feeling that inappropriate mnemonics are going to become a large part of my life?

Original post by ilovehotchocolate

Haha, I like that! Oh, learning anatomy is going to be too much fun..

Thanks :smile:

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 90

gradentry

Hope it will be fun rather than a headache.

Reply 91

Kinkerz

Original post by _lynx_

Wait until you get to cranial nerves :colone:

Reply 92

carcinoma

Original post by Kinkerz

Broadly:
Adduction is coming towards you: adding to you.
Abduction is taken away from you: abducted.

Our professor of anatomy told us to remember it that way :p:

Thats how we learnt it too, our anatomy faccilitator told us this in the first session and it stuck!

Reply 93

carcinoma

Original post by Kinkerz

Wait until you get to cranial nerves :colone:

Oh Oh Oh, I love the cranial nerve one haha :smile:

Reply 94

Lantana

Original post by Kinkerz

Wait until you get to cranial nerves :colone:

or the branches of the external carotid

Original post by carcinoma

Oh Oh Oh, I love the cranial nerve one haha :smile:

Reply 95

Kyalimers

Original post by Lantana

or the branches of the external carotid

What's difficult about that? :\ Unless I've done this in no detail :frown:

Learning spinal anatomy including tracts and pathways in the brain is the big killer!

Reply 96

Lantana

Original post by sohanshah

What's difficult about that? :\ Unless I've done this in no detail :frown:

Learning spinal anatomy including tracts and pathways in the brain is the big killer!

It's not difficult, just inappropriate XD

I dislike the spinal pathways - I still don't really get it - Well neurology is off my list :yep:

Reply 97

Wangers

Original post by Lantana

It's not difficult, just inappropriate XD

I dislike the spinal pathways - I still don't really get it - Well neurology is off my list :yep:

Spinothalamic - crosses in the spine. - loss is otherside
Dorsal Colums - DON'T cross in the spine - same side.

This is why you get Brown-Sequard for pure spinal hemisection.

Simples :smile:

Reply 98

Lantana

Original post by Wangers

Spinothalamic - crosses in the spine. - loss is otherside
Dorsal Colums - DON'T cross in the spine - same side.

This is why you get Brown-Sequard for pure spinal hemisection.

Simples :smile:

Reply 99

Lil08

Got a neuroanatomy exam coming up soon. Any tips on how to crack that would be much much appreciated.

I tried learning from the Grays (bible) but it's very difficult to visualize as the images are terrible.