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.

"The mesentery distal to the duodenojejunal flexure is a contiguous and extraretroperitoneal organ." English translation: Duodenojejunal flexure: the border between the duodenum and the jejunum ...

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 ...

By Mary Brophy Marcus January 4, 2017 / 12:30 PM EST / CBS News ...

The mesentery is "a double fold of peritoneum — the lining of the abdominal cavity — that attaches our intestine to the wall of our abdomen, and keeps everything locked in place," Science ...

The mesentery is a double fold of the peritoneum, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity. It connects the intestine to the abdomen.

Peritoneal tissues including randomly selected regions of anterior abdominal wall, adipose tissue, mesentery and greater omentum were collected from identical sites in all the rats after they were ...

Mesenteric and peritoneal contiguity therefore provide a universally applicable anatomical basis for the standardization of mesenteric-based colorectal surgery.

According to ScienceAlert.com, the mesentery is "a double fold of peritoneum — the lining of the abdominal cavity — that attaches our intestine to the wall of our abdomen," working to help ...

Time to meet your mesentery."We are now saying we have an organ in the body which hasn't been acknowledged as such to date," he said in a news release. Coffey published his peer-reviewed findings ...