We are having dissection course for the summer semester. It has been 3 days since it started, and there is only 1 word to describe it: exhausting. Maybe it is only me, but I feel that the dissection this time is much less interesting compared to the one last time. Maybe I like muscles more. Dunno. Somehow internal organs are just.. well, boring. Or maybe because this time there are fewer demonstrators to teach us. The dissection rooms are packed like a macabre cadaver market during the winter dissection course. Now it seems less cheerful..
I hope I get Sedmera again for the exam on 31st. Seriously, he is the best lecturer and the one I like the most so far – with his impeccable English and humorous antics.
I really should be revising the internal organs and head right now. Laziness wins as always. Oh speaking of which, I found out that medical students can come up with really horny and dirty mnemonics to remember things, for example:
Oh oh oh, to touch and feel, virgin girls’ vagina and hymen..
Okay now all those are for remembering cranial nerves instead of -
Olfactory, ophthalmic, occulomotor, trochlea, trigeminal… You get what I mean.
There is even a whole website dedicated to medical mnemonics lol. Some of them are really dirty like
Some anatomists like f*cking, others prefer S&M (this is for branches of external carotid artery)
The amazing thing is that I think these mnemonics are kinda universal. I vaguely remember my brother telling me the one about cranial nerves but I just brushed it off because never in my life before this would I even think that I could be memorising them in the future. And here I am, memorising courses of arteries, nerves, muscles, plexus yada yada.
I learned a lot though. Never thought that human body is so, well, compact. There is no free space in the body! As time goes on, myths about human body are busted – like when people like to think that the heart is somewhat on the left, but truth is it is actually quite centred in the midline.
And I never knew that lungs could be so spongy – I used to think that they are thin fragile balloons o.O
Oh do not even get me started on the head. The most complex part of the body – period. No wonder human are such complicated, idiotic creatures – we have too many stuff jumbled up in a tiny cavity thingamajig with all sorts of blood vessels and nerves coming in and out of that horrifying labyrinthine thingie. Gah.
Ah well, have to learn them anyway.
Really tired now, so I am going to take a nap before going back to all those organs again. Ish.