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What's the point of teaching calor rubor dolor tumor anymore???

(Latin for heat, redness, pain, swelling;)

Which apparently has been taught to med and immunology students since first century AD and invented by the Roman scholar Celsus?!?

MNEMONICS IN DEAD LANGUAES DON'T HELP PEOPLE REMEMBER THINGS! Now I need to come up with a mnemonic for the mnemonic

please give me ideas for the mnemonic mnemonic, funnier the better

Favorite response to a request for a mnemonic: "Roses are red, violets are blue, the long thoracic nerve innervates the serratus anterior."

(continuing to study) mafic is like. it's like the mafia? high temperature=high stakes and 50% silica because that's like sicily- what am I DOING (actively facepalms in the middle of the testing center)

(studying for my geology exam) porphyritic because por because- because it has big parts, which is like pores- this doesn't make any sense but I think it's gonna work

The mnemonic I learned for this was “Kings Play Chess On Freighters Going South” and there definitely wasn’t a word on there for Domain. Which seems weird 

Flashback to high school biology, anyone? Or even earlier, for some of us! I do love a good mnemonic, and this is probably one of the most common in natural history. There are, of course, other variants, and lots of them; I found a whole list at http://www.mnemonic-device.com/biology/taxonomy/domain-kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species/.  Not pictured: other divisions like subphylum, tribe, etc.

(Also, Dear King Phillip forgot to include himself in the Five Great Species!)