Irish researchers say the human body has an additional organ that has been misunderstood for at least a century.
J. Calvin Coffey, a professor at the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, says the mesentery, which connects the abdomen to the intestines, is not a fragmented group of tissues as the scientific community has long held, but a single, unified organ.
So now, the human body has 79 organs, as noted by The Independent, which first picked up the story.
