What are the ten systems in your body?

Answer 1

Here's how I think of them, in a memory aided kind of order:

Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Digestive, Excretory, Endocrine, Immune, Reproductive, and also Integumentary(skin).

I know that's 11, but a doctor neighbor added Integumentary to my list when I was trying to see if I had thought of them all.

And the memory aid is this:

Start with BONES, because without them you're a floppy, spineless mass (or mess);

Bones need MUSCLES to MOVE them;

Muscles need NERVES to MAKE them move;

Nerves and Muscles need OXYGEN to function, so: RESPIRATORY;

The Oxygen needs to be TRANSPORTED from Lungs to everywhere, so CARDIOVASCULAR;

All cells also need NUTRIENTS, so DIGESTIVE system;

If you eat, you gotta poop, so, EXCRETORY;

At this point, my memory aid pretty much breaks down, but since Excretory begins with an E,

it can remind you of ENDOCRINE,

and then you need something to help fight disease, so IMMUNE,

and we all gotta do what we all gotta do, so REPRODUCTIVE,

and if you don't cover it all with SKIN (INTEGUMENT), we'd be in a sorry state!