Bones of the body

I cannot help sharing this wonderful picture mnemonic to remember the names of bones of our body (from my Facebook friends.

Ossification centres around elbow

Ossification centres around elbow appear in the following order:

Remember CRMTOL or CaRaMel TOffEE 1-3-5-7-9

Capitellum - 1 yr

Radial head - 3 yrs

Medial epicondyle - 5 yrs

Trochlea - 7 yrs

Olecranon - 9 yrs

Lateral epicondyle = External Epicondyle

Note: An alteranate mnemonic is CRITOE, where I = Internal Epicondyle.

You can imagine a child putting Caramel toffee into his mouth with elbow flexed.

Number of Bones

• Total number of bones in human body = 206. ( See the picture - bon(e) looks like 206 if altered as seen in the picture; Still you will have to use your imagination a little )

• Total no. of bones in Face = Fourteen

If you didnot understand the picture mnemonic, see the video mnemonic.

Carpal bones

The carpal ( wrist) bones are ( From lateral side of proximal row):

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Scaphoid,

Lunate,

Triquetrum,

Pisiform,

Trapezium,

Trapezoid,

Capitate,

Hamate

Note: The first 4 bones are from lateral side of proximal row and next 4 from lateral side of distal row.

Again are you confused regarding the order of 'T's i.e. Triquetrum, Trapezium and Trapezoid ?For this, remember that the THIRD bone in mnemonic is TRIquetrum. Now to resolve between the next two carpal bones, note that both of them has "Trapez---". So take the first non recurring letter in these two; they are I (trapezIum) and O (trapezOid). Now in the alphabetical order I comes before O, So Trapezium comes before Trapezoid in the above mnemonic.