Posted on 01/03/2017 5:21:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
The mesentery’s purpose isn’t fully understood, but its presence could hold the key to treating digestive diseases.
It was previously thought that the organ was an unimportant group of structures, but it has now been classified as one single organ, which connects the abdomen to the intestine.
The discovery that the mesentery was a single structure was first made by Irish researcher J Calvin Coffey at University Hospital Limerick in Ireland in 2012.
Since then, he and his team studied the mesentery to prove it should be classified as an organ. "When we approach it like every other organ,” Coffey explained, “we can categorise abdominal disease in terms of this organ."
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The mesentery is a double fold of peritoneum, the abdominal cavity lining, which keeps everything together. It’s reclassification brings the total number of human organs to 79.
“Whether the mesentery should be viewed as part of the intestinal, vascular, endocrine, cardiovascular, or immunological systems is so far unclear, as it has important roles in them all,” the study reads.
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The mystery of the mesentery.
Sounds like something Sherlock should look into.
Mesentery isn’t new. It’s been known about for centuries.
No doubt he would say "It's alimentary."
If so, will they call it the messexitery?
That is abysmal and I wish I had thought of it first.
Thank You!
Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
Don’t forget to tip your waitress and bartender.
Try the veal.
Mesentery isn’t new. It’s been known about for centuries.
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Yes but it hasn’t been considered an organ, but instead structural tissue.
evidently it is thought now to have a wider role.
OK, it was a real reach, well done.
Then we canal celebrate.
Here at home we want to know how they found a spot for this mesentary thing, but they had to exclude Pluto? We’re boycotting until Pluto is recognized.
messexitery
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EXACTLY!!!
Perfect logic, congratulations.
Well played, sir!
My reasoning might not be perfectly logical, but it certainly could be described as procto-logical.
How little we know...humbling.
The intentional question of the intestine
And here I thought the science was settled.
Very unsettling.Love, Science
Like the bowel, science does have its movements towards the light however regular or irregular that may be.
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