Medical Mnemonics

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September 11, 2022

Do you know you can learn the medical terminologies or concepts in key phrases or terms that will last in your memory? Yes! There are numerous ways you can dive into the details of a particular disease and its medications. Now making mnemonics depends upon you, it could be Plain or funny.

MEDICAL MNEMONICS-ENT LEARNING SHORTCUTS:

Before diving into the list of mnemonics, you must familiarize yourself with this term. Also, there are a few strategies that most students premediate for revitalizing the concepts. Being a medical graduate, you might be familiar with some of the mnemonics, but most common comes from basic classes, which are music, names, expression, rhyme, color, note, phrase, image, spellings, connections, or some model. Whether you are preparing for PLAB, USMLE, NEET or AMC make learning easy for you by memorizing the mnemonics. Keeping the aspirants’ concerns, here is the compiled list of some ENT mnemonics. Though it falls under short subjects for the IMGs exam it is the most scored subject.

ENT MNEMONICS:

SAL figured out PMS:

Distal to Proximal

Superior Thyroid
Ascending laryngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Post Auricular
Maxillary
Superficial

Atrophic rhinitis

(ATROPI In young Girls)

Antibiotic spray
Teflon paste
Remove crust
Oestradial therapy
Placental extact
Potassium iodide
Irrigation
Insert fat cartilage
Young operation
Glucose in glycerine
Girls– (femae more affected)

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma:

(NOSE)

Neck mass
Obstructed nasal passage
Serous otitis media externa
Epistaxis or discharge

Ear drops: direction to pull ear when instilling

For a grown UP it is UP.
For a chilD it is Down.

1. Oral pharyngeal cancers: Aetiology
  (6 S’s):

Smoking
Spicy food
Syphilis
Spirits
Sore tooth
Sepsis

6. Complications for canal wall-down procedures
(3 D’s)

Discharge
Deafness
Dizziness

Theories for origin of cholesteatoma
(CRUSH)

Congenital theory
Ruedi’s theory
Wittmaacks’s theory (use W instead of U)
Saade’s theory
Habermann’s theory

Contraindications of stapedectomy

(I POD)

Infections in ext/middle ear
Perforation should be closed first
Only hearing the ear is a contraindication
Deafness (sensorineural)

SEQUELAE OF CSOM-
(O-CART)

Ossicular necrosis
Cholesterol granuloma
Atrophic tympanic membrane and atelectatic middle ear
Retraction pockets and cholesteatoma
Tympanosclerosis

D/d of Acute Tonsillitis
(MADI LoVe MAT)

Membranous tonsillitis
Agranulocytosis
Diphtheria
Infectious mononucleosis
Ludwig’s angina
Vincent’s angina
Malignancy
Aphthous ulcer
Tonsillar cleft

D/D of membrane over the tonsil
(We Mainly Discuss At Length About Membrane In Tonsil)

We – Vincent’s angina
Mainly – Malignancy
Discuss – Diphtheria
At – Agranulocytosis
Length – Leukemia
About – Aphthous ulcers
Membrane – Membranous Tonsillitis
In – Infectious mononucleosis
Tonsil – Traumatic ulcer

Gradenigo’s triad
(EAR)

Ear discharge
Abducens palsy
Retro orbital pain

Indications of tympanoplasty
(ABCDES)

Age should be above 10yrs when sufficient resistance develops
Benign(tubotympanic disease) can be corrected
Conductive deafness can correct
Dry perforation gives best results
Eustachian tube should be functioning properly
Stapes should be mobile

Causes of SNHL

Congenital Acquired Infection (CPP)
Prenatal factors
Paranatal factors
Nakshatra Makes FANSI TOPS
Noise induced HL
Meniere’s dz
Familial Prog HL
Ac. Neuroma
Noise Induce HL
Sudden HL
Infections
Trauma to labyrinth/VIIITH Nv
Ototoxic drugs
Presbycusis
Systemic Dz.

Aetiology of Submucous Fibrosis.
(STAMINA)Socio-economic status
Tobacco
Areca Nuts
Multifactorial
Immune process
Nutritional
Alcohol
Functions of Tracheostomy