The newly found organ that connects your gut to the rest of your body.Leonardo da Vinci depicted it as one contiguous organ, and it remained that way for centuries until 1885, when Sir Frederick Treves' findings presented the mesentery as fragmented amongst the small intestine, transverse colon and sigmoid colon.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
The mesentery: A 'new' organ you didn't know you had
The newly found organ that connects your gut to the rest of your body.Leonardo da Vinci depicted it as one contiguous organ, and it remained that way for centuries until 1885, when Sir Frederick Treves' findings presented the mesentery as fragmented amongst the small intestine, transverse colon and sigmoid colon.
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Wow! This is so weird to know but definitely interesting!
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