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  2. Hepatoduodenal ligament - Wikipedia

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    Running inside it are the following structures collectively known as the portal triad: [1] hepatic artery proper; portal vein; common bile duct; Manual compression of the hepatoduodenal ligament during surgery is known as the Pringle manoeuvre. [citation needed]

  3. Memory sport - Wikipedia

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    These include, for instance, the Dominic system, named after former World Champion Dominic O'Brien, the mnemonic major system, as well as the person-action-object system which involves encoding cards and numbers into sequences of persons, actions, and objects. [15] These methods are sometimes referred to as "mnemotechnics".

  4. Lobules of liver - Wikipedia

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    In histology (microscopic anatomy), the lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue, consisting of a portal triad, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein.

  5. Art of memory - Wikipedia

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    The Dominicans were particularly important in promoting its uses, [12] see for example Cosmos Rossellius. The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci - who from 1582 until his death in 1610, worked to introduce Christianity to China - described the system of places and images in his work, A Treatise On Mnemonics. However, he advanced it only as an aid ...

  6. Mnemonic link system - Wikipedia

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    A mnemonic link system, sometimes also known as a chain method, is a method of remembering lists that is based on creating an association between the elements of that list. For example, when memorizing the list (dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window), one could create a story about a "dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky thirteen ...

  7. List of visual mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Knuckle mnemonic. A mnemonic for the number of days in each month uses the knuckles (and the dips between them) of two fists, held together, moving right from the left pinky knuckle. The raised knuckles can be seen as the 31-day months, the dips between them as the 30-day-months (and February). The gap between the hands ignored.

  8. Brown–Peterson task - Wikipedia

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    Another example is the use of mnemonic devices, which are a creative way to mentally arrange the items to be memorized. Three key words in rehearsal are Association, Location, and Imagination. Association is an important factor in rehearsal, as it is the part of elaborative rehearsal where people make connections with the items and things ...

  9. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    A mnemonic to remember which way to turn common (right-hand thread) screws and nuts, including light bulbs, is "Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey"; another is "Right on, Left off". [ 8 ] : 165 For the OSI Network Layer model P lease D o N ot T hrow S ausage P izza A way correspond to the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation ...