Have new organs been discovered in the human body?

This organ is called the mesentery: a new organ found in the digestive system. Initially thought to be fragments of organ parts, it turned out to be a whole organ that functions continuously.

Evidence of this organ reclassification was published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. All this is the result of the latest research which finally since last year began to be taught and disseminated to medical students. They recognize that the mesentery is a concrete organ of the human body. Even the world's best medical textbook, Gray's Anatomy , has updated information about this organ complete with its definition.

The inventor of the mesentery organ was able to explain why he was finally able to identify the object as one of the organs of the human body.

According to J Calvin Coffey, a researcher from the University Hospital Limerick in Ireland, in a scientifically reviewed and assessed journal, it is now certain that we have organs in the body that have not been recognized until now. It was he who first discovered that the mesentery is an organ in the human body. For Coffey, the believed anatomical description of the organ for the past 100 years is wrong. The organ is not divided and complex, its shape is really a complete structure.

So what exactly is a mesentery? Let's know more here!

The mesentery is a double fold of the lining of the abdomen - in line with the abdominal cavity. It glues our intestines to the stomach wall and is in charge of making sure everything "locks in" where it belongs.

Mesentery has actually existed for a long time, but is underestimated and considered unimportant because it does not have characteristics like organs in the body in general.

One of the earliest descriptions of mesentery was made by Leonardo da Vinci, then for centuries the "organ" was ignored because it was considered an insignificant glue of the body. Over the past few centuries, doctors who studied mesentery have assumed that it is a fragmentary body consisting of several separate parts, thus being considered unimportant. However, in 2012, Coffey and his colleagues were able to demonstrate in microscopic detail that the mesentery was indeed a complete structure that worked continuously.

The discovery of new organs in the body means adding new areas of medical science learning, science is getting wider.

Over the past four years, they have accumulated more complete evidence that the mesentery can indeed be considered an intact organ and the most recent medical journals have made this information official. Although this does not change the structure of the small organs that have always been in our bodies all this time, the reclassification will give birth to new fields in medical science that can improve our health care.

With the new organ, it is hoped that medical treatment will be more appropriate, especially for stomach-related diseases for which no cause has been found.

Coffey says that when we think of it as an organ, we can identify diseases around the stomach by considering this organ as well, which we didn't see before because we thought it didn't exist. That means that medical students and researchers are currently investigating what diseases can be caused by this mesentery, hopefully this understanding will lead to more appropriate treatment. For example, a patient who has been claiming pain in his stomach but apparently all the organs in his stomach is fine.

According to Coffey, the next step that needs to be taken is to know all the concrete functions of the mesentery, because when we know its normal function, we will be able to know when its function is not functioning normally. After everything is complete, then a new science will emerge, namely mesenteric science. This research proves to us that no matter how sophisticated the world of science is today, there will always be more to learn and discover, even within our own bodies.