SOME SAY MARRY MONEY
sentence mnemonic/sʌm seɪ ˈmær.i ˈmʌn.i/
Anatomy
Definition
1.Whether each cranial nerve is Sensory, Motor, or Both.
Expansion
- SomeOlfactory (I) — Sensory
- SayOptic (II) — Sensory
- MarryOculomotor (III) — Motor
- MoneyTrochlear (IV) — Motor
- ButTrigeminal (V) — Both
- MyAbducens (VI) — Motor
- BrotherFacial (VII) — Both
- SaysVestibulocochlear (VIII) — Sensory
- BigGlossopharyngeal (IX) — Both
- BrainsVagus (X) — Both
- MatterAccessory (XI) — Motor
- MostHypoglossal (XII) — Motor
Notes
The full verse is *"Some Say Marry Money But My Brother Says Big Brains Matter Most."* The first letter of each word tells you the modality of the matching cranial nerve: S = sensory, M = motor, B = both.
Run it alongside On Old Olympus' Towering Tops — one gives the nerves in order, the other gives their function.
Origin
A rhyme about priorities that secretly encodes nerve modality, word by word.
See also
- ON OLD OLYMPUS' TOWERING TOPS — The twelve cranial nerves, in order from I to XII.