Systolic and diastolic murmurs (mnemonic)

A mnemonic helpful for remembering whether a valve disorder manifests as a systolic or diastolic murmur is the following: 

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Mnemonic

During systole, blood gushesstreams past the heart's semilunar valves as the ventricles contract.^1,2 During diastole, thesome opposite occursactions occur, as the ventricles relax and collect the human body's venous return.³ A systolic murmur contrasts with its diastolic counterpart in that the former murmur type emergesresults from flow turbulence, whereas the latter kind emanates from flow regurgitation.^4,5

The above mnemonic colloquially corresponds to the expression of "an epic DSI's SD card Makes Tablets Download Swiftly," with "epic" substituted by its phonicphonetic equivalent, i.e., "AP-ic," denoting athe prefix that describes apices, e.g., of organs and matching with the terms "aortic" and "pulmonic." Worthy of additional note is the fact that "DSI" is referring to a dual-screen handheld gaming console, e.g., from Nintendo.

Finally, a crucial aspect of applying this mnemonic entails positioning afreshre-positioning the 11 words, hereinafter listed, such that there isin a 3 by 3, or 9-cell, table. And inIn the first column of such a table, as well as in descending order, ori.e., from up to down, lie the words "Disorder" (for(corresponding to "valve disorder"), "Stenosis," and "Insufficiency." In this table's second column, inand within its first cell, containfigure the words "Aortic" and "Pulmonic," with "Systolic" and "Diastolic" facing inclusion in this column's second, third, and third vertically-positioned cells. In this table's final and third column repose the words "Mitral" and "Tricuspid," in itsthe topmost or first cell, i.e., at its first rowrow one, along with "Diastolic" and "Systolic" vertically positioned in itsthe column's second and third cells.

A: aortic

P: pulmonic

D: disorder

S: stenosis

I: insufficiency

S: systolic

D: diastolic

M: mitral

T: tricuspid

D: diastolic

S: systolic

Comprehensively, and in terms of order, the listing above ordinally presumespresumes that its users are proceedingwill proceed from a consideration ofconsidering the content(s) of the first cell, orand row, of the table's second column, before moving to all three cells, or and rows, of the table's first column. After proceeding in the manner heretofore recommended, an application of the table's contents revealswould reveal that a pairing of the words "Aortic" and "Stenosis" pointswould point to (a) systolic murmur(s), in the same way that linking the words "Pulmonic" and "Stenosis" does. In contrast, pairing "Aortic" with "Insufficiency," as well as "Pulmonic" with "Insufficiency," pointswould point to a diastolic murmur. As part of a final step, the remaining four words canwould be positioned such that "Mitral" and "Tricuspid" arewould be in the last table column's first cell, or row, of the table's last column and "Diastolic" as well as "Systolic" would face inclusion in itsthe column's vertically-stacked second and third cells. In consequence, an application of this new consideration would establish that "Mitral" and "Tricuspid" matchedwould match with "Stenosis" would manifest as a "Diastolic" murmur.