The Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had The human body was thought to have 79 organs—until researchers stumbled on a strange phenomenon that could turn medicine and what we thought we knew about the body upside down.
From The Daily Beast
A study published in Scientific Reports on Tuesday suggests that a previously unknown organ has been found in the human body.Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-interstitium-the-largest-organ-we-never-knew-we-hadMore astonishingly, the paper puts forth the idea that this new organ is the largest by volume among all 80 organs—if what the researchers found is, in fact, an organ.
How could what’s being termed as the largest organ in our body escape notice for so long? A dogged trio of researchers stumbled upon it—despite the fact that they argue it’s a crucial part of our bodies and been there all along, right in front of us. It’s an astounding find—but not without controversy.
When I first met Neil Theise at a busy, east side Manhattan deli in the middle of the work day last November, I was embarrassingly late, having budgeted 15 minutes for what turned out to be an hour-long trip. Theise—unassuming in a scrunched shirt and jacket—cheerfully waited, but I was late enough that he’d started eating a hot, open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy, while jovially chatting with the wait staff (“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid!” he announced).
Between slurps of soup, Theise told me that he’d been working on several medical studies for the past few years. He was a Jewish Buddhist, a man who was at home with discussing the various veins of meditative practices in the same breath as the intricacies of liver pathology.
TL;DR: It's the connective tissue between everything that is now considered it own organ.
I'm not sure if this is a scientific discovery or taxonomic discovery? I mean they already knew there was connective tissue there it's just being presented as an organ now.
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Thank you for that interesting post. I think nowadays it's very important to stay flexible in our thinking. The biggest mistake would be an attitude like "We already know so much, what else can there be?" Medical knowledge has always been "in the flow". It also depends on how you define things, for example what is the definition of an organ? See Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_(anatomy)#Modern_definitions_and_ontology
It's very interesting that we found this now. I wonder if we will find new organs in the future. I doubt we figured it all out... yet.
Interesting. But it seems a bit... semantic.
Nice post
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science created a wonderful invention.thanks for sharing.keep it up.
Es increíble que a diario aprendemos más, cosas que creíamos que ya sabíamos, gracias por esta información, nunca me hubiese enterado. Ahora cuando me duela todo el cuerpo por la fibromialgia diré que me duele el órgano más grande del cuerpo.
Great post, thanks for sharing. Human body keeps to many secrets we have to discover them!!!
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