The mesentery is a double fold of a membrane (the peritoneum) that supports the intestine from the posterior abdominal wall carrying vessels and nerves. During early development, the whole of the gut ...

It was by peeling away the peritoneum and repeated observations that Coffey built his case for the mesentery. In 2012, Coffey’s team determined the mesentery was indeed a single, connected structure.

S cientists recently discovered what they are calling a new human organ that exists in the digestive system. Named the mesentery, the organ was previously thought to consist of fragmented and ...

The organ is a double fold of peritoneum - the lining of the abdominal cavity - that holds our intestine to the wall of our abdomen. The organ was first described by the Italian polymath Leanardo ...

Mesentery is a sheet-like structure that encloses the intestine and attaches it to the posterior part of the abdominal wall. First illustrations of the structure in situ indicated its contiguity ...

Small-intestinal mesentery. This region is connected to your small intestine, specifically the jejunum and ileum regions. These are the last two regions of your small intestine before it connects ...

"During the initial research, we noticed in particular that the mesentery, which connects the gut to the body, was one continuous organ," J. Calvin Coffey, a surgeon at the University of Limerick ...

Two cases of cartilaginous differentiation of the peritoneum not associated with an intraabdominal malignancy are described. This is the first detailed report of cartilaginous metaplasia of the ...