Over a century ago, when scientists were classifying the body’s organs, one was short shrifted, according to researchers who say part of the digestive system deserves to be upgraded to organ status.

In case you’ve ever wondered what connects your intestine to your abdomen, there’s a word – and now, a single organ – for that: the mesentery. But don’t worry; you haven’t grown a new organ. It’s ...

An Irish surgeon's breakthrough overturned more than a century of medical belief and may lead to improvements in digestive surgery and recovery. The mesentery, it turns out, is one connected organ, ...

J. Calvin Coffey, professor of surgery at University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, who argued successfully for the reclassification of the mesentery as an organ. University of Limerick ...

Mesentery is a sheet-like structure that encloses the intestine and attaches it to the posterior part of the abdominal wall. First illustrations of the structure in situ indicated its contiguity, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In case you missed it, by at least one recently revised tally you now have 79 organs-- up from 78. A layered fold of tissue that ...

University of Limerick scientists believe the mesentery, a double-layered sheet of abdominal connective tissue, should be classified as an organ, according to a recent article in The Lancet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1885, English surgeon Frederick Treves gave a series of talks at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His most famous moment in ...

A new organ has been discovered hiding in plain sight inside the human body. Known as the mesentery, it was previously thought to be just a few fragmented structures in the digestive system. But ...

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