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Old Yesterday, 14:28
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An existing one, but never noticed before.

The ''mesentery''

slightly unbelievable, but, true !
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Old Yesterday, 14:38
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An existing one, but never noticed before.

The ''mesentery''

slightly unbelievable, but, true !
What?

Of course it was noticed before.

Bizarre
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Old Yesterday, 14:41
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An existing one, but never noticed before.

The ''mesentery''

slightly unbelievable, but, true !
Well reclassified essentially.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-a7507396.html

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 scientists have realised it is in fact one, continuous organ.

Although its function is still unclear, the discovery opens up “a whole new area of science,” according to J Calvin Coffey, a researcher at the University Hospital Limerick who first discovered it.

"When we approach it like every other organ… we can categorise abdominal disease in terms of this organ," he said.

“Now we have established anatomy and the structure. The next step is the function. If you understand the function you can identify abnormal function, and then you have disease.

“Put them all together and you have the field of mesenteric science.”

The research has been published in The Lancet medical journal.

Following its reclassification, medical students are now being taught that the mesentery is a distinct organ.

Gray’s Anatomy, the world’s most famous medical textbook, has been updated to include the new definition.
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Old Today, 01:11
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ody-180961658/

http://www.seeker.com/a-brand-new-hu...177481699.html
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Old Today, 01:59
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But, what does it do ?

Is it like the brain, u can live your entire life without one, complete removal causes no difference in most people ?
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Old Today, 03:22
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The ''mesentery''

slightly unbelievable, but, true !
So not new at all, then.
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Old Today, 04:03
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It's a bit like, for several hundred years, as if doctors ''noticed that people had intestines'', but said ''we don't think all that tubing does anything .......''
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Old Today, 04:04
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Fecking hell. I just took it for granted that the human body had been fully explored a long time ago and we pretty knew everything that went on in it.

It just shows you how when you think you've got the full picture of something you may well not have, and the context can change a bit. Perhaps a lot with this new discovery, I don't know.
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Old Today, 04:06
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So not new at all, then.
Well, it depends. It's new in a way if it wasn't a part of the consensus of people's perceived collective reality.
If they discovered a new planet in the solar system it wouldn't technically be new if it had always been there, but it would still be new as far as we're concerned.
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It's a bit like, for several hundred years, as if doctors ''noticed that people had intestines'', but said ''we don't think all that tubing does anything .......''
For most of human history the brain was considered relatively unimportant and nobody understood what its function was. They believed that the heart was the seat of consciousness.
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