"Pneumos" had the double meaning of spirit (and wind or air) in Greek at
the time of the writing of the New Testament. When you consider that
there is often an exhalation at death, this may be where the Greeks
connected this--giving up the ghost!
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From: HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Teresa Ann Trendler
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:39 PM
To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [HAPS-L] Cranial nerves and memes
Ken,
the issue of remembering the "name" for memory tricks
is easily solved if you tell students that they fall
under "M" for memory not "P" for air.
Teri
> Years ago, I challenged my class with a contest to
> come up with the best
> cranial nerve mnemonic to replace "On old Olympus'
> towering tops...." One
> of my students came up with the one I've used ever
> since in my textbooks,
> "OLd OPie OCcasionally TRies TRIGonometry, And Feels
> VEry GLOomy, VAGue,
> And HYPOactive" (which, for most cranial nerves, gives
> two to four of the
> initial letters, per my caps). The student, Marti
> Haykin, subsequently went
> to medical school and has become, of all things, a
> neurologist in Pittsburgh.
>
> I was checking on her and the status of Old Opie
> today, and found this
> Wikipedia page listing numerous cranial nerve
> mnemonics -- some of them
> obscene (of course!) and many of them lame, but
> whoever wrote the article
> put Old Opie at the top of the list.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves
>
> Googling "Old Opie" brings up a lot of false positives
> -- references to the
> Opie & Anthony radio show, for example -- but adding a
> word ("Old Opie
> occasionally") pulls up several hits to the mnemonic,
> which appears to be
> spreading as a Dawkinsian meme.
>
> I find it sad, though, that so many health-science
> students AND INSTRUCTORS
> call such memory aids "pneumonics," as if they were
> some sort of lung
> disease. I've seen them called that right here on
> HAPS-L. If that's the
> right word for them, it's pneus to me!
>
>
> Ken
>
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