Supine vs. prone body position Know SUPination is your hand while carrying a bowl of SOUP.

Your face follows where your palm is facing [i.e. up]. Put a handpuppet on your hand while hand is in supination and the puppet will be the supine position. See diagram.
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Anatomical planes: coronal, horizontal, sagittal Coronal: A classic painting/stained glass window of a saint/angel has a corona radiating around the person's head. The plane of the glass/page is cutting their head in the coronal plane. Horizontal: Someone coming over the horizon has their abdomen cut in the horizontal plane. Sagittal: the remaining one by default.
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Ankle: anterior compartment of leg contents "The Hamptons Are Never Dull Parties": From medial malleolus: Tibialis anterior tendon (Extensor) Hallacus longus Artery (anterior tibial)

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Cubital fossa contents "Really Need Booze To Be At My Nicest": From lateral to medial: Radial Nerve Biceps Tendon Brachial Artery Median Nerve
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Lymph nodes Esophagus Show Details / Rate It <javascript:showdetails('detailsrate.cfm?mnemonic_id=1986')> ---Anonymous Contributor University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Inguinal canal: walls "MALT: 2M, 2A, 2L, 2T": Starting from superior, moving around in order to posterior: Superior wall (roof): 2 Muscles: internal oblique Muscle transverse abdominus Muscle Anterior wall: 2 Aponeuroses: Aponeurosis of external oblique Aponeurosis of internal oblique Lower wall (floor): 2 Ligaments: inguinal Ligament lacunar Ligament Posterior wall: 2Ts: Transversalis fascia conjoint Tendon Show Details / Rate It <javascript:showdetails('detailsrate.cfm?mnemonic_id=2010')> ---Miruna Segarceanu UMF Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania Mediastinums: posterior mediastinum structures There are 4 birds: The esophaGOOSE (esophagus) The vaGOOSE nerve The azyGOOSE vein The thoracic DUCK (duct) Show Details / Rate It <javascript:showdetails('detailsrate.cfm?mnemonic_id=2355')> ---Aron Flagg Finch University of Health Sciences / The Chicago Medical School Internal pudendal branches "I Pee Pee But Don't Dump!": Inferior rectal Posterior scrotal (or labial) Perineal Bulb Deep artery Dorsal artery Show Details / Rate It <javascript:showdetails('detailsrate.cfm?mnemonic_id=2503')>