What is the term used for a prompt composed by rearranging the first letters of the points to be remembered? e.g. PEEP (Pressure - Elevate - Examine - Pad)
A mnemonic is the name given to a device (such as a verse) used to assist the memory: In fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Initialisms are a more down-to-earth form of mnemonic. The word comes from the Greek mnemonikos 'mindful'.
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