An curved arrow pointing right. Two researchers — Dr. Calvin Coffey and Dr. Peter O'Leary — are forever changing the way we understand an important tissue in the human body called the mesentery. In a ...

J. Calvin Coffey, professor of surgery at University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, who argued successfully for the reclassification of the mesentery as an organ. University of Limerick ...

For more than a century, doctors have regarded the folds of flesh that hold our intestines in place as snippets of an elaborate support structure—convoluted, but not much to talk about. Yet when a ...

LIMERICK, Ireland, Jan. 4 (UPI) --A doctor in Ireland classifies the mesentery, a membrane that connects the intestine to the abdomen, as a continuous structure and a separate organ. The mesentery had ...

A University of Limerick (Ireland) professor has identified an emerging area of science having reclassified part of the digestive system as an organ. The mesentery, which connects the intestine to the ...

An Irish surgeon's breakthrough overturned more than a century of medical belief and may lead to improvements in digestive surgery and recovery. The mesentery, it turns out, is one connected organ, ...

Quick, point to your mesentery. If you aren’t quite sure where it is, or what it is, you are not alone. However, this piece of your digestive tract is getting a lot of attention lately, as some ...

J. Calvin Coffey holds up a model of the mesentery Alan Place/University of Limerick There are 78 different organs in the human body—but there may actually be 79, reports Tom Embury-Dennis at The ...

In 1885, the English surgeon Frederick Treves gave a series of talks at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Treves’s most famous moment in abdominal history — treating Edward VII a few days ...

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Researchers have identified a new organ in the human digestive tract — the mesentery — that had been hiding in plain sight for years, according to a paper in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Limerick scientists believe the mesentery, a double-layered sheet of abdominal connective tissue, should be ...