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Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com)
Scientists have classified a new organ called the mesentery, which connects a person's small and large intestines to the abdominal wall and anchors them in place, according to the Mayo Clinic. Until recently, it was thought of a number of distinct membranes by most scientists. It was none other than Leonardo da Vinci who identified the membranes as a single structure, according to a recent review. Live Science reports: In the review, lead author Dr. Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick's Graduate Entry Medical School in Ireland, and colleagues looked at past studies and literature on the mesentery. Coffey noted that throughout the 20th century, anatomy books have described the mesentery as a series of fragmented membranes; in other words, different mesenteries were associated with different parts of the intestines. More recent studies looking at the mesentery in patients undergoing colorectal surgery and in cadavers led Coffey's team to conclude that the membrane is its own, continuous organ, according to the review, which was published in November in the journal The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The reclassification of the mesentery as an organ "is relevant universally as it affects all of us," Coffey said in a statement. By recognizing the anatomy and the structure of the mesentery, scientists can now focus on learning more about how the organ functions, Coffey said. In addition, they can also learn about diseases associated with the mesentery, he added.
Time for new textbooks that will be $250 each!
So the scientists didn't do shit then. All the credit goes to da Vinci.
I think some of these scientists need to be fired. What are they doing all day, rediscovering things that a painter/inventor discovered hundreds of years ago? Fire them or cut their funding, because they're clearly garbage.
I think it's more "Scientists identify overlooked organ". Pity..... "New" would have been cool, in an X-MEN sort of way.
So, did the value of my Grey's Anatomy book go up or down? Fingers crossed.
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Indeed! We really don't have just one brain. We already know that the spine itself reacts like a brain and near your solar plexus is a junction of nerves that processes more information. The eyes pre-process and sort information before it ever gets near the brain. Unfortunately I haven't researched it for years and retroactive amnesia has set into my brain.
Shouldn't the pericardium also be classified as a separate organ rather than part of the heart then? It's certainly more complicated in its function.
I lost about 35 pounds and discovered an organ I hadn't seen in so long I thought it was a myth.
Also, that I have two feet attached to my toes.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
You have died of mesentery.
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> diseases associated with the mesentery
Great! That's what we need, new diseases. Thanks, Obama... um... Trump?
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Scientists identify new human in organs!
Of course, now you're thinking, WOW they used to use dental records...
With the inevitable debate on whether the classification is warranted. And btw Pluto IS a planet.
I for one welcome our new intestinal innerlords.
Should not be practicing medicine. They should stick to what they're good at -- making BOMBS!!.
This is like saying that scientists discovered 1 billion new living dinosaurs when they reclassified avians as saurian dinosaurs (instead of ancestors of dinosaurs).
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Also, 12 ways contemplating your mesentery will help you lose weight.
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All of you are several years overdue for your mesenteroscopy, a crucial test for early detection of several forms of cancer.
Can you call the hospital and book an appointment for your procedure?
Can we name it the semicolon?
messentery... because when it is torn or perforated you tend to make a mess all over whatever is in front of you.
Ahh the joys of mesentery failure: a pile of bowels all over the ground in front of you!
I died of mesentery while playing the Oregon Trail card game the other night...
Come on, science. Don't be shy. We all know the Taint is an organ too.
Let me get this straight. If I pick up a Da Vinci textbook, or whatever, and then claim the same thing he did, I will have discovered it? No wonder cancer hasn't been cured yet.
Why no comment (that I can find) about the fundamentally misleading title. They did NOT find or even "identify" a new organ. They just decided that the description of a certain part of the human body could be made a bit more clear. Kind of like a promotion up to "organ" status rather like the demotion of Pluto down from planet status.
I'm skeptical it will be helpful in any medical sense, but maybe it will help clarify some medical conditions. Might need to rename them, too.
Not sure I should go here... Probably not. However to me the significant part of improving medical diagnoses is that the more detailed and accurate diagnoses of our diseases reduce the uncertainty about when we'll die and why. So is your last will and testament boots-on or boots-off?
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...when they harvest all the rest of my organs by default.
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
As a surgeon we've only been acutely aware of the mesentery, its existence and its organic functionality.
Struggling to see why this is news....
They are just claiming that these alien parasites are a "new" organ that has been there all along so that the takeover isn't reported by doctors until it is too late.
There are no new organs in my colon thank you very much.
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It's called the "gut." Previously this organ was believed to be a series of smaller independent organs and tissues, but I've decided otherwise. Where's my Nobel Prize.
They merely discovered that it was fully connected instead of segmented.
Anyone that's read the older First Responder coursebooks from 20+ years ago knows this thing exists in humans. WONDERFUL pictures of shattered bowels and mesentery all throughout the book.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Sounds like the Pluto debate of anatomy - is it an organ or a mere set of membranes?
Not scientists, nor Leonadro DaVinci, it was the Egyptians.
Hold on, I am not joking. Egyptians have known that the mesentery is a single connected membrane. Why? Because they use that fat laden membrane from sheep to create minced meat kabob like grilled meatballs. It is called mandil ("handkerchief" or "hand towel").
Here is a video showing it as a full contiguous membrane, and the rest of the recipe if someone is interested.
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So, to put it in Unix terms... It's a PIPE ORGAN?
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"scientists have discovered an old organ that was already discovered by a guy living in a time where they weren't exactly sure about wizards yet."
A new organ? Wow! The wonders of the Trump Era are only just beginning!
I had a gut feeling about this...
It was none other than Leonardo da Vinci who identified the membranes as a single structure
He just discovered this? Wow. He must be, like, really old by now. Didn't know he was even still practicing medicine.
Say, do you think he's still painting, too? I'd really like to have him do a fresco in my house.