Tom, Dick and A Very Nervous Harry

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Tom, Dick and A Very Nervous Harry or just Tom, Dick and Harry is a mnemonic to help you remember the anatomy of the ankle tendons and the neurovascular bundle from anterior to posterior as they pass posterior to the medial malleolus:

Tom, Dick and Harry:
Tibialis posterior
Flexor digitorum longus
Flexor hallucis longus

Tom, Dick And Very Nervous Harry:
Tibialis posterior
Flexor digitorum longus
Artery (posterior tibial)
Vein (posterior tibial)
Nerve (tibial)
Flexor hallucis longus

Mnemonics are a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.

There is also the phrase unrelated to this mnemonic of “every Tom, Dick, and Harry” which is taken to mean everyone and the phrase of “any Tom, Dick, or Harry” taken to mean anyone.

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Tom, Dick and A Very Nervous HarrySOCRATESTiny Dogs Are Not HuntersPREPSOCSPLASTER OF PARIS
ADMEFOG MACHINESMAD COPLOSS9 S's and 6 D's for Charcot's Foot
CLUBBINGBIG G

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