This thread is a continuation of another discussion.
SirBMR wrote:
Wait so you literally did all 200+ bones?
I think that one doesn’t necessarily need to memorize all 206 bones, because the ribs and vertebrae are numbered and the individual phalanges don’t have names other than their position (proximal, intermediate, distal). The hands are like this:
You only need to memorize that and the names of the eight carpal bones.
For the spine, I just remembered that there are three sections:
- cervical (7 vertebrae) – cervix
- thoracic (12 vertebrae) – Thor battling a Tyrannosaurus rex (Jurassic)
- lumbar (5 vertebrae) – lumber
Then you have 9 more fused vertebrae in the sacrum (5) and coccyx (4).
The ones that are more complicated and not familiar to most people are the carpals, tarsals, and bones in the skull like inferior nasal concha, zygomatic bones, and ethmoid.
You don’t need a special memory palace, because the body already has spacial locations. I put the images right on my body.
I really enjoyed it and will probably memorize a lot more anatomy just for fun.
Here is a list of bones from Wikipedia – it’s only 56 items:
- frontal bone
- parietal bone
- temporal bone
- occipital bone
- sphenoid bone
- ethmoid bone
- mandible
- maxilla
- palatine bone
- zygomatic bone
- nasal bone
- lacrimal bone
- inferior nasal conchae
- vomer
- malleus
- incus
- stapes
- hyoid bone
- scapula or shoulder blade
- clavicle or collarbone
- sternum or breastbone, comprising the body of sternum (gladiolus), manubrium, and xiphoid process
- ribs
- cervical vertebrae
- thoracic vertebrae
- lumbar vertebrae
- Humerus
- radius
- ulna
- scaphoid bone
- lunate bone
- triquetrum bone
- pisiform bone
- trapezium
- trapezoid bone
- capitate bone
- hamate bone
- metacarpal bones
- proximal phalanges
- intermediate phalanges
- distal phalanges
- sacrum
- coccyx
- os coxae or hipbone, comprising the fused ilium, ischium, and pubis
- femur
- patella
- tibia
- fibula
- calcaneus or heel bone
- talus
- navicular bone
- medial cuneiform bone
- intermediate cuneiform bone
- lateral cuneiform bone
- cuboid bone
- metatarsal bone
- sesamoids
(The list above is not necessarily in the best order.)