Irish Surgeon Discovers New Organ In Human Body

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS News

Irish Surgeon Discovers New Organ In Human Body
January 4, 2017 4:04 PM


PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A surgeon from Ireland has discovered a new organ in the human body.

J. Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, discovered the new organ called mesentery, and it was essentially hiding in plain sight in our digestive system.

“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,” Coffey said in a statement.

The mesentery connects the intestine to the abdomen. For hundreds of years it was considered a “fragmented structure made up of multiple separate parts.”

Read more: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/mesentery-new-organ-human-body/

[CanonRay]

1. It'll behoove you to care for your uvula!

[hibbing]

2. Cool

There once was a doctor from the Emerald Isle
Who's discovery made me smile
For when he was deep in my intestinal tract
Came upon a new fact
An amazing discovery
An organ he named mesentery


Peace

[KT2000]

3. +1

Very good!

[Hekate]

10. Oh well done

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Influenced by his post being at the University of Limerick ? nt

[Pachamama]

18. Bravo...

On my top 10 answers list on DU to an OP....

A Limerick for the event...

This is why even amongst all the depressing things we have to discuss, I can always have a smile from time to time and know their are wise people amongst us...

And with humor...

[milestogo]

4. I thought this was going to be an emergency room sex story.

[meadowlander]

5. Please call it the Coffey Filter instead.

Thank you.

[Hekate]

9. There would be serious grounds for that

[Orrex]

14. .

[dionysus]

23. You deserve to be (dark) roasted for that pun

[Orrex]

15. .

[christx30]

20. Ok. Everyone go home.

Meadowlander won this thread.

[JudyM]

24. Good one! Welcome to DU, meadowlander.

More like this, please, we need good humor!

[Zambero]

6. This discovery will necessitate a brand new surgical procedure

The "mesenterectomy"

[certainot]

7. and a machine that goes.... beep

[Pachamama]

17. Bet it won't be covered under "Trumpcare"

[Crash2Parties]

8. But hey, GOP; what do we need science for, right?

[dembotoz]

16. this should appeal to them...they are full of shit

[DK504]

21. HA!!

good one

[burrowowl]

12. K&R

[Sunlei]

13. perhaps USA surgeons will stop slashing apart this vital organ with colon/intestinal surgery

a lot better outcome for everyone who has had colon cancer surgery and other intestinal surgeries and suffered from internal scaring and adhesion's from "old school" slash surgery.

mesentery organ discovered by J. Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School.

Coffey stated that further studying the mesentery can lead to less invasive surgeries, fewer health complications, faster recovery for patients and lower overall costs.

[bahrbearian]

19. rec

[DK504]

22. Congrats Ireland.

Too bad it isn't a new liver. All the bile racing across the nation we need one for all the drinking people are doing right now.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

25. Doctors discover there is no organ in Trumps head.