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[BronsonLee]

GET IT OUT OF ME

 

[Malyse]

GET IT OUT OF ME

Okay.

C'mere.

 

[Nickovic]

No thanks

 

[Monocle]

Oh great, the last thing I need is some new organ to start acting up. What a pain in the mesentery.

GET IT OUT OF ME

Use your teeth. The sooner you rid yourself of this unholy growth, the sooner you'll feel better.

 

[commedieu]

Can I run crysis now?

 

[Sölf]

I hate it when they put assets behind a paywall even though they are clearly there.

 

[jason10mm]

This makes no sense. The anatomy, structure, and development of the mesentery is well described. No one is ignoring it. Surgeons are intimately familiar with it.

 

[hockeypuck]

It was described by the Italian polymath Leanardo da Vinci in 1508, but it has been ignored throughout the centuries, until now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...ssified-abdominal-grays-anatomy-a7507396.html

Well that's a stupidly written sentence from a journalist. The mesentery contains at least two very important structures that affect treatment of disease: blood vessels to the gut and lymph nodes. Pediatric surgeons have purposefully manipulated the mesentery in children in bowel-lengthening operations to try to cure short gut syndrome. Vascular surgeons perform bypasses to the superior mesenteric artery. Cancer doctors look at the mesenteric lymph node status in resected bowel tumors to determine if chemotherapy is warranted. I don't see anything revolutionary with this "discovery." The mesentery became an organ. Whoop-dee-doo. The other 99.9999% of people who actually touch this stuff don't give a shit.

Maybe I should've added "mesenterectomy" to my sigmoid resection that I just finished two hours ago. I could've charged the insurance companies more $$$$.

 

[xxracerxx]

This makes no sense. The anatomy, structure, and development of the mesentery is well described. No one is ignoring it. Surgeons are intimately familiar with it.

I was going to say.

 

[Malyse]

This makes no sense. The anatomy, structure, and development of the mesentery is well described. No one is ignoring it. Surgeons are intimately familiar with it.

"In the paper, which has been peer reviewed and assessed, we are now saying we have an organ in the body which hasn’t been acknowledged as such to date.”

We knew it was there, but not as a continuous organ. We thought it was lots of separate pieces that worked together.

 

[rokkerkory]

Yeah this is where aliens love to incubate!

 

[echoshifting]

I already broke it

Crap

 

[umop_3pisdn]

It doesn't sound as if the organ itself is all that new Neat, though.

 

[Miletius]

If you've ever examined a cadaver it's just the stuff that keeps your intestines in place. It's kind of yellow and it just kind of holds.. everything together. It also is supposed to help in nourishing and keeping the organs in that area healthy, or at least that is the supposition.

 

[Aselith]

Congratulation, you're pregnant.

 

[Codeblue]

I'm like 90% sure this was covered in my anatomy course 5 years ago.

 

[frontovik]

Mesentery ..

Dysentery?

...

 

[Zombine]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

 

[Royal_Phalanx]

Sounds like a disease.

 

[Playmaster]

Think I fought one of those in ocarina of time

 

[Regiruler]

Congratulation, you're pregnant.

But I haven't played Other M!

 

[dcelw540]

Can I sell mine and how much is it worth.

How much does it sell for?

Hopefully this isn't too far for this thread. If is I'll change it.

 

[uncredited male]

Great, something else to go wrong.

 

[Wag]

Stop riding my messentery!

 

[ibyea]

Ugh, terrible science journalism all around. It's good that more is known about the mesentery but the journalistic exaggeration in the story is terrible.

 

[More_Badass]

Our first mistake was ignoring Da Vinci

 

[jmood88]

WebMD already has pages devoted to all forms of mesentary cancer.

 

[DiscoJer]

Well developmentally the mesentary all began connecting the primitive gut tube to the abdominal wall. I need to read the paper but I don't really know whyou this is revolutionary and not just a classification thing.

Sounds more like glue than an organ

 

[Kieli]

Mesentery was presented as being connective tissue more than anything in my anatomy class. Didn't have endocrine function or any meaningful metabolic reactions that took place.

 

[Codeblue]

Mesentery was presented as being connective tissue more than anything in my anatomy class. Didn't have endocrine function or any meaningful metabolic reactions that took place.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[always crazy bacon]

The next stage of human evolution?

 

[fenners]

Well developmentally the mesentary all began connecting the primitive gut tube to the abdominal wall. I need to read the paper but I don't really know whyou this is revolutionary and not just a classification thing.

Because it's not revolutionary, it's clearly just a classification thing.Wont be reported like that because scare stories get clicks.

 

[Hale-XF11]

I call dibs on the name for my next metal band.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

I call dibs on the name for my next metal band.

Call your first single "Mesenteric Vein Thrombophlebitis"

 

[Drkirby]

Clearly a scam by the healthcare industry, next they will invent ways for your new mesentery to be sick, and rake in the big bucks.

 

[zeemumu]

Must be next to my Squeedlyspooch.

 

[Sesha]

This isn't even my true form!

 

[830920]

Man, just as I was getting comfortable with my body...

 

[metalslimer]

Honestly the microbiome is the cooler new "organ" on the block anyway.

 

[Lamel]

The mesentery has been known about and studied for ages. This is just a classification thing ultimately.

Honestly the microbiome is the cooler new "organ" on the block anyway.

This is true.

 

[boiled goose]

Organ classification is somewhat Arbitrary anyways. Much like taxonomy,planets, etc.

Convinient labels don't matter to nature. Things just are.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Honestly the microbiome is the cooler new "organ" on the block anyway.

How big of a microbiome is considered a good size for a grown man?

 

[Disagree Guy]

Organ classification is somewhat Arbitrary anyways. Much like taxonomy,planets, etc.

Convinient labels don't matter to nature. Things just are.

Feels pain - goes to Doctor

"Doctor I've got a pain in my.... eerrm... whatever this is called"

"Shit son, what the hell is that? Guess you's fucked?

 

[boiled goose]

Feels pain - goes to Doctor

"Doctor I've got a pain in my.... eerrm... whatever this is called"

"Shit son, what the hell is that? Guess you's fucked?

Said they are arbitrary. Not that they aren't useful.

All labels are definitely useful. See words.
Words as labels for objects/ideas are arbitrary too.

Arbitrary and useful are too different labels for two different concepts.

 

[*Splinter]

“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.”

I know this makes sense, but that's a funny way of phrasing it.

 

[Diprosalic]

then why do we still have livers?

 

[Ray Wonder]

Can I kill it with alcohol like I'm doing with the rest of my organs

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Can I kill it with alcohol like I'm doing with the rest of my organs

It'll get bigger.